Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Temperley gave History 12a, the course on English history from the Revolution of 1688 to the Reform Bill, which was so long given by Professor Macvane, and a special course on The Growth of the British Empire, and also directed the research of a few graduate students in recent English history...
Governor Woodrow Wilson's address of last Saturday brings out many points of very special interest in these days of strenuous and earnest social reform movement. There is a common error nowadays into which the over-zealous reformer is very apt to fall, namely that of judging the value of a principle or an action solely by its indirect consequences. Thus, in private property rights, the socialist sees an evil, not because the holding of private property is in itself a wrong, but because evil has resulted from the abuse of this right. In like manner he declares the present...
...this way, its professors, especially those of Economics, Government, and Law frequently lending their training and knowledge for the benefit of government investigation. It is true that Harvard professors, unlike Governor Wilson and Governor Baldwin (who was long with the Yale faculty), prefer to act as advisers in various reform movements rather than to enter the field as candidates for election. But even so, the present attitude is in strong contrast to the old feeling that an educator could have no part in politics, when, with the predominance of the classics, the professor felt it far beneath his dignity...
...work for the Public School Association and the Citizen's Municipal League of Boston, in the Trophy Room of the Union this afternoon at 5 o'clock. E. E. Smith '02, a member of the Boston City Council, will speak on the work already accomplished in behalf of municipal reform, and plans will be discussed for the coming Boston city elections. About 40 men are needed for work on Election Day, Tuesday, and today's meeting will provide an opportunity of learning the nature of the work required...
...This reform party, the "Young Turks." had many problems to solve, but so much was accomplished in a short time that the whole country now seems to be on the way to better things. At this critical time, it seems the duty of every country to extend a helping hand. On the contrary, one nation is taking advantage of a blunder on the part of the Turkish government. There seems to be but little excuse for seizing Tripoli by Italy, and still less for the horrible slaughter of 4,000 men, women and children...