Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Camp, of Yale, last night gave out a statement in regard to a conference of the Harvard, Yale and Princeton football coaches with President Roosevelt in Washington on Monday, concerning reform in the game of football. The statement was made public after word had been received from the President, and is as follows: "At a meeting with the President of the United States it was agreed that we consider an honorable obligation exists to carry out in spirit the rules of the game of football relating to roughness, holding, and foul play; and the active coaches of our universities, being...
...Bonaparte went on to show how it is that so many office-seekers persist in believing him a "spoils" man, although he has spent his life in active reforms. This is in a measure explained by the noticeable part which he took in the recent presidential campaign, and the fact that President Roosevelt employed him in investigating several abuses in the Civil Services. It was therefore naturally believed that he was an office-seeker, and his reform principles were consequently considered mere party abuse and ridiculed as the sounding catch-words of a public impostor...
...Baltimore. In 1902 he became a member of the Executive Board of Indian Commissioners, and since then has also served on the Executive Committee of the National Civic Federation. He has twice been a member of the Board of Overseers. For many years he has been prominent in political reform movements, serving two years ago on the commission appointed by President Roosevelt to investigate the Post Office frauds. At present he is chairman of the National Civil Service Reform League...
...pointed out in his previous lecture the conflict between European and Asiatic customs and tendencies was largely responsible for breaking up the unity of the Mediterranean empire. A fanatical crisis in Bagdad at the end of the eighth century, M. Millet said, and a thorough reform of the Christian church in the eleventh century, coupled with the desire to restore the old Roman empire, was directly responsible for the Crusades. These served to subdue the Mohammedans--the "yellow peril" of the Middle Ages. With the decline of the Crusading spirit Europe came into contact with the luxury of the East...
...Long Island Railroad. As chairman of the trustees of the General Education Board he was one of the chief promoters of negro education in the south. He was also a trustee of Tuskegee Institute and of Smith College, and was actively connected with both social and civil reform movements in New York City...