Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bound to come against the present over-emphasis upon football in American colleges. The Stevens authorities, however, seem to have erred by going too far in the right direction. It is natural enough for any reaction to swing the pendulum to the opposite extreme Perhaps the movement to reform football is distined to take some such radical direction before it finally settles to a sensible point in between glorification and abolishment of the game. It is probable, however, that such violent measures will do more harm than good by incensing devotees of football against any reform whatever...
More than one movement for reform of religious congregations and of religious houses for a time held back these destructive tendencies. But in the end they undermined the usefulness of the great medieval religious foundations and destroyed public confidence in them, so that when the royal despoiler set his hand on them in England after the Reformation, and the popular despoiler seized them in revolutionary France there was hardly a protest...
...welcome the flood of criticism of our universities and the diversity of projects for the reform of college education. These projects, coming from the colleges themselves, show us that those who are charged with the direction of American educational foundations, if overwhelmed with distractions no less than those which diverted the abbott of the late Middle Ages from the true work of his house, are neither in different nor timid
...This reform will be eagerly looked for by restaurant habitues, but there is still one evil which cries for reformation. Some compulsive power must insist that steaks be large enough to be visible to the naked...
...than a failure and as a statesman, untried. His difficulties in stepping into the shoes of the late popular Mr. Massey are manifest. His friends in New Zealand, while wishing him the best of luck, are, therefore, dubious as to whether he is the right man to lead the Reform Party and head the Government...