Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Banker Speyer in continuing his tribute mentioned two items of "indispensable assistance": Mr. Mellon's reduction and reform of income taxes, and the foreign debt settlements. In these matters, the aid Mr. Mellon had had from others and his backing by two presidents, were recognized. Had Banker Speyer thought of it, had the occasion been more appropriate, he might have mentioned another service, of considerable dimensions though of a less tangible nature, that Secretary Mellon has performed in the five years that have elapsed since he left his Pittsburgh home to occupy a spacious and luxurious apartment in Washington...
...consign jazz to a hotter place than this earth. . . . It is bootleg music. Let us curb it; let us put it down; let us outlaw the thing! . . . The jazz hound is the musical bandit, running amuck. You can't purify a polecat. Let us try not to reform jazz, but to stamp it out-to kill it like a rattlesnake. Good music is one of the things that charm the soul in Heaven...
Other speakers will be Professor Wilbur Urban, President of the American Philosophical Association, on "Undergraduate Values"; Professor Leon B. Richardson, author of "A Study of the Liberal College", on "Curriculum Reform"; and Lewis Fox, President of the National Student Federation of America, on "Relations between the Federation and the Collegiate Press...
...arrival into the ins and outs of the college before he plunges into the maelstrom. The second contemplates the abolishment of mid-year examinations. It is purposed to rest grades during the year on judgments more co-incident with the actual work performed in courses. The third and last reform is identical with that most recently instituted in Harvard and Yale, namely, permission for upper-classmen seeking distinction to reduce the burden of courses...
...Hammond had with her in Johannesburg Mr. Hammond's sister and her little boy Jackie* (her second son) aged eight. The preliminary trial of the Reform Committee soon began "for high treason" but about that time Mr. Hammond fell ill with dysentery. Mrs. Hammond got him out of jail under guard, nursed him herself. Finally under $100,000 bail he was allowed to leave the country and go to Cape Town...