Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...present time the question of reform is in order. Everybody feels that there is something to be done; modifications to be adopted, antiquities to be suppressed, new methods to be introduced. Still, there is fear and hesitation. In France, you know, we know not how to make reforms; we make revolutions...
THOUGH our complaints are not always listened to, yet the reform of an abuse, now and then, encourages us to hope for consideration in future. Our present grievance is the gas in Holworthy, which seems so far to partake of the universal feeling in regard to the next two weeks, that instead of making light of it, it is subject to sudden fits of depression, varying in length from five minutes to an hour. The importance of remedying this defect will be seen by any one who considers the awkward situation of one who sits down to a night...
...practical advantage of the most radical reform exists only in theory. Of course, any system allowing greater freedom is sure to find sturdy partisans; but the desirability of voluntary recitations has not yet been proved. What the effect of throwing open these Elysian fields may have on the "margin of cultivation" (to quote our amiable friend, Mrs. Fawcett) is uncertain; but a judicious use of the privilege will doubtless make the students' labor easier; a man may get through many subjects, with a recitation now and then, and perhaps get as high a per cent as now, by making...
...every part of the country the subject of legislative enactments, although hitherto it has been alluded to but casually in the College press, deserves the thought of those undergraduates interested in social and moral problems, who expect hereafter to engage in affairs and deal with the tangled knots of reform. Delicate to handle it undoubtedly is, like everything that has to do with the practice or views of a man's associates. Moreover, the most earnest efforts are often misconstrued by rigid supporters of the pledge and prohibition. For this reason people of attainments and culture are disposed...
Tempora mutantur. No man rejoiced more at the abolition of hazing than myself, for it seemed a brutal and senseless custom. But that I, a member of the class of '75, which instituted this reform, should suffer this humiliation at the hands of the haughty class of '77, - that I, who solemnly promised with the rest to abstain from hazing, should myself be roughed, - is indeed a galling thought! Perhaps, then, the Sophomore theory that "the conceit must be taken out of Freshmen" was not so absurd a one after all. Who knows but that the propensity to haze...