Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...things slide--to rest content with results, and sometimes with no results--has its influence on a great number of our college enterprises. We collect our athletic subscriptions and sell our tickets in a slip-shod fashion. When the grievance becomes intolerable somebody remonstrates and we experience a reform. Naturally other enterprises take notice and adopt parts of the new system. But altogether we are slow to change, and we suffer long. One of the reasons for this is, I believe, that we do not accustom ourselves to using the machinery which would make reforms easily attainable...
Among those who read this article there will be many, no doubt, who can offer suggestions or modifications for this plan. Would it not be a real kindness to 1906 and all subsequent classes to have a discussion of this reform, and if it seems desirable, to urge its adoption. President Derby tells me that the Princeton system is very much like the one proposed here, and it seems a great improvement over the rigid system we follow at Harvard. C. H. SCOVELL
...undergraduates, who agitated for reform a year ago, wished to keep graduates out of the Yard, but had not the slightest idea of keeping out any undergraduates. Even when the new rules regulating the assignment of Yard rooms were announced, on December 5th, no one supposed that an interpretation of the term "undergraduate," that would bar Seniors, at the same time first year men in a graduate school, from Yard rooms, would be made. At that time, the CRIMSON in its editorial upon the subject said, "there may be some question as to whether a Senior who is also...
...Robert Luce '82, representative from Somerville in the Massachusetts Legislature, and author of the "Luce Caucus Reform Bill" spoke last evening in Room 6 of the Union before the Political Club on "Caucus Reform." Mr. Luce has advocated the adoption of direct nomination of party candidates at the primaries as a substitute for the present method of nomination by conventions...
This subject of caucus reform, he said, however narrow and small it may seem on the surface, is in reality one which involves the fundamental principles of democracy and individualism. Although in theory the equality of all men is still firmly maintained, nevertheless in practical politics means have always been found to prevent the individual voter from exercising his full sway. One of these devices, nomination by a convention made up of delegates from the caucus, throws the power of the caucus directly into the hands of the "machine" which with its active interest in politics, can as a rule...