Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago had to make up for ten years of inept and corrupt public-school administration. For months, a reform school board had been looking for a man to clean up the disorder left by Mayor Ed Kelly's stooge, Superintendent William Johnson. The reform board, appointed with the approval of Chicago's new businessman mayor, Martin H. Kennelly, had found Chicago's teaching staff unhappy victims of political conniving and its school system on the blacklist of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Last week, the board unanimously confirmed 45-year-old Herold...
...Editor Morrison never really gave up his pulpit: "I was simply acquiring a larger pulpit." From the first, the distinguishing characteristic of the Century under Morrison was its intellectual vigor. It rose to its present circulation (40,000) in a time when Protestantism was so mired down in social reform that it tended to forget theology-a time when the intellectual world often looked on religion as a misty-minded form of escapism. In such an era, the Century dared to speak of Christianity as a way of life, and stuck to the truths of Christian gospel...
...valuable time in learning to spell with letters having no connection with the sound of the words. . . . More power to the students for having the courage to defy the old mossbacks by refusing to carry this senseless load any longer and thereby-we hope-start a movement for spelling reform...
...left to wonder . . . We have to reform our social habits, conquer our mental inertia, mercilessly throw away our pet customs and traditions before we can enjoy the fruits of science, before we can prepare against the growing dangers brought about by its constant unfoldings. Our airplanes . . . are supersonic, but our bodies are not yet supersonic. In such a world a dynamic, progressive, evolutionary, yet balanced, view of life is necessary for mankind...
Historian Link sees a strong likeness between Princeton's Wilson (whom the University trustees eventually forced out) and the Wilson of the White House. "During the first years of both administrations, Wilson drove . . . through a magnificent reform program. . . . His accomplishments both at Princeton and Washington were great and enduring. Yet in both cases he drove so hard, so flatly refused to delegate authority, and broke with so many friends that when the inevitable reaction set in, he was unable to cope with the new situation. His refusal to compromise in the graduate college controversy was almost Princeton...