Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friends of the game before its foes are given justification for demanding and accomplishing its death." That is also the platform of Harvard as set forth by President Lowell and applied by Director of Athletics Bingham. It is the platform of every sane man who has been advocating reform of intercollegiate football for the past year. In general principles then Harvard and Dartmouth, President Lowell, President Hopkins, and Mr. Bingham, are all in whole hearted agreement...
...discuss them specifically until the full details of the Dartmouth program appear. Suffice it to say, first that Mr. Hopkins and his associates have spent many months on the formulation of the proposals published yesterday, second that good faith on the part of any college adopting so sweeping a reform is to be presumed and will obviate any such objection as that the college would make one team in practice a university team and the other a second team...
...this city in Church circles we have the Rev. Irving Berg, Pastor of the Fort Washington (Congregational) ; the Rev J. Frederic Berg, Pastor of the Flatbush Dutch Reform Church; and for almost half a century, Albert Wilhelm Berg (now deceased) was the organist of the famous Little Church Around the Corner (Episcopal...
...solves the question of representation to some extent by granting a representative to each fraternity, and by making class officers ex officio members. But this makes for a body too large and unwieldy to be effective,--witness the dismal inertia of the portentous Harvard Student Council before the reform...
...just in time for the flood of early nineteenth century Romanticism, Robert Owen, son of a Welsh saddle-monger, managed in the course of his long life to embrace most of the intellectual innovations which were awakening England from its lethargy of unadulterated nationalism. Agnosticism, spiritualism, free-love, social reform, the cooperative system--at one time or another he tried them all. But in spite of his tendency toward mere theorizing he was practical enough to ameliorate the condition of the factory workers and to offer, in the shape of his New Lanark experiment, his idea of a model town...