Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Winston Churchill delivered a very instructive and comprehensive lecture last night on politics, illustrating his points by many humorous stories drawn from his own experiences in New Hampshire, when he was the gubernatorial candidate of the Lincoln Republican Club on a reform platform...
Starting with the great reform wave, which swept over New England in 1832, Mr. Churchill traced the gradual political reform. The sentiment began here and there, and, after many failures, swept from state to state, until now it now it has become national. This reformation is due to the new type of men who have entered politics. In former days it was a bore to go to a political meeting where nobody was listened to or respected, but now the young man has stepped in and changed matters...
...editor of the Army and Navy Journal of New York, and the next year was elected managing editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine. He was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature from 1903 to 1905 and in 1906 was the candidate of the Lincoln Republican Club; on a reform platform, for Governor of New Hampshire. He is a member of the Union and Century Clubs of New York, of the Union and Century Clubs of New York, of the Union and the Tennis and Racquet Clubs of Boston, and of the University Club of St. Louis. He has attained much...
Just what results are to be expected from this recommendation it is difficult to prophesy. We have great faith in the efficiency of the Athletic Committee and of Mr. Garcelon to deal with the athletic problem to the satisfaction of all. The Committee knows best just what reforms are needed, and just what reductions are possible without injuring the status of the sport. It has done a great deal to eliminate some of the chief objections to intercollegiate sport, and it will undoubtedly do more. In the end its aim is to be a leader in necessary reform; but such...
...University expects a reform and looks to the Committee for some definite action...