Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seldom has a single man achieved such a large reform. Others have tried to do this very thing, notably Thomas Jefferson in his plans for the University of Virgiuia, but Charles William Eliot was the first who succeeded...
...machines in themselves are not necessarily bad. Tammany Hall is, on the whole, a good example of the efficient, reasonably clean type. The Vare machine on the other hand, appears to be the most flagrantly vicious in the country. One wonders what the Committee of Seventy in supposedly civic reform league organized several decades ago, has been doing all this time to justify its existence...
...there took place in Germany a great school reform, embodying many of the ideals of the Youth Movement. The overdone intellectualism of the past generation has been discarded, and in place arises a new ambition of education: the formation of a well-rounded harmonious personality by means of deep penetration in one of the four great fields of culture...
Little Speaks On Reform...
President Little spoke briefly of college reform, advocating a sharp division between the first two and the last two years of college. He declared that there should be a series of compulsory general courses given in the opening, years of college whose purpose should be primarily to arouse and stimulate intellectual curiosity in the student. At the end of the Sophomore year general examinations should cover the field of these courses, and success in these should admit the student to the higher courses, where in the last two college years there should be specialization, and greater academic freedom. A modified...