Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...withal, the triple triumph of the New Deal in these debates is comment-worthy. For it demonstrates that opponents of the present administration will have a hard time marshalling arguments against it. Relief, Recovery, and Reform represent specific achievements of the Roosevelt regime which can not easily or logically be refuted...
...Adams narrative gives special emphasis to the two great political concerns of Britain in the 19th Century: colonies and reform. In the development of Australia, of Canada, of New Zealand, of India, Adams sees and insists on the greatness of early Victorian statesmanship, which worked out the democratic Commonwealth of Nations...
...historian of society as well as government, Adams does not minimize Britain's misery at home in the Tory reaction which for 40 years after the French revolution delayed reform. But when reform came it was not through violent revolution, as elsewhere in Europe, but through the Parliamentary process and the talents of English statesmen. Adams' story includes many instances of the way in which those talents opened up modern civilization; e.g., Sir Robert Peel's inauguration of the police force, Sir Rowland Hill's invention of postage stamps...
Winning the local debate against Princeton at the Harvard Club, Jack Orloff '41, James J. Pattee '41, and Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41 backed the New Deal on three counts: Relief, reform, and Recovery...
...knowledge of educational trends in other parts of the country will do much to disentangle a Harvard now snared in the meshes of educational reform. The tendency, perhaps not entirely fictional, to regard the country's oldest college as its only college, will be replaced by a much more cosmopolitan realization of Harvard's place in the American scene. No one-sided concern, the Committee can also put some weight on the other side of the scales. Harvard should be a diligent pupil, but it can also be a very efficient schoolmarm. And the cordial relations established by the Committee...