Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Reed is a destructive, not a constructive force in lawmaking, but he is consistent. He believes that the reform wave of the last two decades, which would create laws and Federal bureaus to cure every popular ill, is mischievous. If this is continued to its ultimate complexity, every time a citizen has a toe ache he will write to his Congressman to put through a bill creating a staff of Federal doctors to soothe such maladies. Senator Reed would have better execution of the existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over...
...more vivid relief the importance of the spirit that lies behind such cooperation between administrators and students. In tendering its resignation, the Princeton Council has registered the most effective protest possible against that form of student government which by edict of the dean hopes to effect lasting and beneficial reform. It is brought out clearly in the resignation of the Council that the step is taken not as a protest against the particular reform in question, but against the spirit in which it is made...
This is undoubtedly true in matters involving discipline and undergraduate morale. No true educator could be found today to hold that any such reform can ever be effectively instituted without the sympathy and support of the students themselves. The question of cooperation in strictly educational problems is not so clear. For concrete proof of success of such a policy as that inaugurated by the Overseers, we will have to wait. Probably much will have to be done in organizing public opinion and in educating response before such proof can even be looked for. It is undeniable that the student...
...down over his monocle, replied frigidly: "The Right Honorable member from Smethwick* must know that the right of a state to protect its nationals does not depend on 'treaty right.'" ¶ Defeated by a majority of 178 a Laborite resolution against the Government's proposal to reform the trade union law (TIME, Feb. 21). Since the exact nature of the changes which the Cabinet will propose have been kept secret, the debate last week was ingeniously based on conjecture. Said Laborite John R. Clynes: "I don't need to know what the Government is going...
...Harvard are probably more progressive in their athletic policies than any other two colleges in the country. It would seem, therefore, unfortunate on the surface that a more binding agreement could not have been concluded between them, for two colleges standing shoulder to shoulder for high standards or reform would be more effective than independent lines of action no matter how intelligent and courageous. However, viewed from another angle, the very informality of the arrangement bespeaks at once the mutual confidence of Yale for Harvard and Harvard for Yale; and at the same time promises closer cooperation than the terms...