Word: reforms
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...Jesup is a prominent New York banker and a nephew of Morris K. Jesup who has for so many years been active in advancing the common welfare in social, educational and political matters. He has been closely identified with the work of political reform in New York, in 1905 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the New York County Committee of Jerome Nominators, in which capacity he did vigorous work as a public speaker. It was at his suggestion that the movement was started which resulted in the formation of the Intercollegiate Civic League at the City...
...present discussion of athletics in President Eliot's reports and among the undergraduates. They are (1) toward reducing the money cost of all athletic sports and the profitableness of some; (2) toward increasing general participation. Everybody will admit the desirability of at least these two objects of athletic reform. I believe that the two are not antagonistic, or separate, but go together, and that a solution of the financial part of the athletic question,--subscriptions, price of tickets, managerships, etc.,--will remove most of the real difficulties...
...from 1898 to 1902, and from 1902 to 1906 was governor of the state. As governor, he was a leader in Southern educational movements, and is now a member of the Southern Education Board. He introduced the legalized primary in Virginia, and has always been a leader in political reform...
...ratified. But the entire field would be explored; existing powers and limitations would be better understood; wholesome legislation, national and state, would be stimulated; abuses would be more clearly noted; remedies would be more zealously sought and easier found; groundless complaint would measurably subside; useless, impracticable agitation would diminish; reform movements would gain in practicability and promise; and the political atmosphere generally would be materially cleared...
...into seriousness in the number, although crude, has promising strength. The author might read Joseph Conrad to advantage. "The Strength Test," by S. Ervin '08, is the kind of article one likes to see in the Advocate. Such light, satirical essays on College subjects, on matters which obviously need reform, but which are perhaps not of sufficient importance to demand more serious treatment, are worth while from all points of view. Nothing is more important in reforming abuses than well-directed and kindly ridicule. Of the verse, the "Ballade of Lost Editors," by W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez...