Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...addition to the three-mile reform Mr. Mapes announced a change in the eligibility rules which will put a curb on the presence in university boats of men who had gained experience on boat club crews. The change makes the standard of entry into the Poughkeepsie regatta similar to that which governs entry into events of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America...
...they will also probably be termed, while it is not unlikely that distinguished authority will apply the opprobrious but hitherto unexplained adjective 'professional" as a further qualification to their pacifism. And in sober truth, it is sometimes difficult for even the most principled toleration to regard cranky objectors to reform with equanimity...
...significant thing is that the Princeton faculty hopes that the movement of the little company of sophomore reformers will succeed. The club elections have come to be too important a feature of school life, almost making or marring a college course. The best men do not always disclose themselves during the two years in which the upper classmen are "looking over the material" and making their selections for the coveted memberships. Some men are good mixers and others are shy and make their way slowly. Some are predominantly athletic, some altogether athletic, some are grinds and others are general good...
...expedient will remedy this condition. We are only too prone to seek the immediate, only too averse to tracing the certain future results of our present acts. If we do not seek the permanent now, it will be at the cost of our future satisfaction. As Mr. Phillips says, "Reform must come from within, not from without, and it will be brought about by a sterner sense of duty and a realization that the vain stampede after pleasure for pleasure's sake is leading us only to restlessness and discontent...
...Then a few years ago the governor of New York appointed a committee for prison reform, of which I was made chairman. We began to study the situation by getting the criminal's point of view, and for this purpose I went to prison for a week...