Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politicians who did the same. Before the Great War, King Alfonso often said to his intimate friends : "These corrupt politicians in Spain will end by losing my throne for me." After the Great War, the clever Alfonso seized the opportunity, when it came, to save his throne and reform the Government by a dictatorship, which was the only possible way to do it. I am posting you a magazine in which you will find a good portrait of the Infanta Beatriz, Alfonso's eldest daughter and favorite child. She is very clever and has fine eyes...
...years ago since the Dominion Senate was established and for most of that period a movement to "end or mend the Senate" has been an annual slogan of Canadian politics. But the aged Senators have been so tenacious of office that they have resisted every effort at reform; for, without their consent, nothing can be done to change the present constitution of that venerable house...
...completed by the following six general topics: "China," a series of eight lectures by Dr. S. K. Hornkeck of Harvard, beginning on November 28: "The Founders of the Middle Ages," eight lectures by Professor E. K. Rand '94 of Harvard, beginning on January 11, 1928: "The Foundations of Reform in England in the Nineteenth Century," six lectures by Professor E. P. Cheyney of the University of Pennsylvania, beginning on February 6: Struggles and Settlements on the Fringe of Rival Civilizations," six lectures by Sir H. B. Ames, beginning on February 27: "The Folk Songs of France, Italy, Germany, and Russia...
...every dollar expended for repairs, it required that nearly four dollars be expended to make the repairs. . . ." Rear Admiral Magruder wound up with a consideration of Navy salaries, the need of enlisted men, uses to which decommissioned ships might be put. He concluded that economy and administrative reform could regenerate the Navy without burden to the taxpayers, "yet, as is ever the case, to reform requires a certain amount of ruthlessness and moral courage of a high order." "Sic 'Em." So soon as Washington correspondents had read Rear Admiral Magruder's article, they sped to Secretary...
Only in the closing paragraphs does the article seem reasonable. It justly attributes the unparalleled success of the German preparatory schools to the masterly training of their instructors. That is the place for American educational reform as long as it must be discussed. Why doesn't Mr. Holmes bemoan the existing practice of allowing ordinary normal school graduates to guide the child in the early formative years of his life? Why does it cry that the problem lies in the students' race for graduation units, when that is an extremely minor issue? Why should a child, who would rather...