Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Post began his public career in 1874, when he served as Assistant United States Attorney in New York. During the next two decades he was interested in the reform movements in New York City which centered around the candidacy of Henry George, the famous reformer, for Mayor of New York; during the nineties he became interested in the Single Tax movement and founded. "The Public", a Single Tax weekly, which he edited until 1913, when he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor by President Wilson...
Thomas Mott Osborne '84, the wellknown advocate of prison reform, will speak on "What the Criminal Thinks, in Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society at 7 o'clock tonight...
...Osborne has for the last fifteen years been interested in a reform of prison conditions, especially in New York State. In 1913 he spent several days in Auburn Prison as a convict in order to study the life of a prisoner. The conclusions which he reached at that time he put into effect shortly afterwards when he became Warden of Sing Sing. His actions, however, brought him into conflict with certain elements in the political parties of the state and resulted in his resignation as head of the prison a few years ago. During the past few years...
...welcome to all students, and especially to students in the west, where conditions here are not so fully understood, it is essential that certain barriers--whether real or rumored--be demolished. It would seem that a sane alteration of our peculiar entrance requirements would offer the first opportunity for reform; a more liberal attitude would undoubtedly do much to popularize Harvard in many sections of the country...
There are signs, indeed, that the reform has already begun. The more flexible rules for distribution, the tutorial system, the appearance in Phi Beta Kappa of names associated with undergraduate activities, all point that way. We want no more standardized product,--we want men. Realization of this end rests ultimately with the undergraduate...