Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hounds of speech a preliminary run: "With Borah as its leader in foreign affairs, challenging the Administration's position with reference to the World Court, and Dawes, the Mussolini of American politics, threatening invasion and destruction to those of his political faith who dare oppose his Senatorial reform views, the poor old Republican Party is in for rough sledding and a hard time...
That student conference at Wesleyan University, culminating in proposals for the reform of football, recalls an issue which has been discussed for a full decade. Do athletics, especially intercollegiate athletics, promote or hinder the cause of education? President W. T. Foster of the Reed College at Portland, Oregon, has been one of the most outspoken in condemnation of what he calls "exaggerated emphasis" on college sports. He asks our attention to "the weaklings among the undergraduates who spend their hours in cheering a football hero and their money in betting on him, while the man of highest achievement in scholarship...
...which undergraduates have given to the modern curriculum of education is athletics", declared W. J. Bingham '16, former University track captain, in a speech made at a football dinner at Lawrence High School yesterday, as he launched into what he termed "the most popular sport of early winter, athletic reform...
...much pleased to see your paper trying to start something in the way of reform of football. I trust you will continue your efforts to abolish football as a "business," and to bring it back as a "sport...
There have been attempts to reform football by college Presidents who mildly or vehemently deplored the young generation and all its works. There have been attempts to reform football by young literati among the undergraduates and minorities of alumni who doubt if the game is worth its present price. Now comes an attempt to reform football by the regulars themselves. Representatives of six colleges met in Middletown on Sunday. They were neither alumni, nor Presidents, nor editors of classical monthlies with a flair for Elizabethan verse; they were, instead, the editors of undergraduate daily newspapers and the Chairmen of undergraduate...