Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...real problems of the day. The Progressives are quite willing to be recognized as the great conservative force in the political conflict which actively beginning in 1912, is to go on for years to come. Mr. Henderson believes that "the time will inevitably come when the Progressive party, its reform program enacted, will disintegrate; for capital, which fills the party's war chest, and labor, which gives it most of its votes, cannot long lie together in peace." Inasmuch as from the Socialist point of view, the Republican and Democratic parties have already ceased to be vital forces, this would...
Other churches represented were: Christian, Swedenborgian, Reform Jewish, Ethical Culture, Quakers, Dutch Reform, Evangelist, Buddhist, Greek, Hindu, Moravian, Disciplers, Reform Church. Of these, none were represented by more than nine...
...straight path to a righteous solution of those problems lies in a sense of duty on the part of the possessor. It is the habit of the day to decry loudly the iniquity of others, to assume that in attacking them we perform our public duty; that by reforming them we fulfill the moral law. Such an attitude has its value. It corrects gross abuses; but by itself it is not a principle that makes for the highest type of civilization. Carlisle remarked of the French Revolution that everyone wanted to reform the world, but no one began by reforming...
...print in another column a communication concerning make-up mid-year examinations. We emphasized need of permanent reform in this direction some time ago. The communication this morning mentions the innovation, which was introduced for the benefit of those men who were absent from their mid-year examinations because of militia duty in Lawrence during the strike and who were, therefore, allowed to take their make-up examinations in April. In our previous editorial we pointed out the desirability of making this a permanent feature, and we hope with the writer of this morning's communication that the office will...
...Freshman class won positions in the first or second group. Of the Sophomores, eleven per cent, were honor men, and of the Juniors sixteen per cent. These figures not only reveal a progressive interest in and attention to scholarship, but they offer the suggestion than the place for reform is the Freshman class. Here conditions are worst and here changes can be made most easily...