Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Singularly fitting today are the words uttered by Macaulay when he urged "Reform in order that you may preserve." In the past year we have witnessed repeated examples of the inability of the machinery at Washington to cope with pressing situations. It is not that we have had ignorant or incapable officials in positions of responsibility, but that the means open to those officials are inadequate for the efficient execution of government work. The various departments have expanded to such an extent that the duties of one, overlapping, often interfere with the work of another; and those duties themselves have...
...thing is certain: the old order is no longer able adequately to cope with modern conditions. Conservatives and liberals alike should unite to effect the reform which is obviously so necessary. When reform becomes the instrument of political preservation, even the most conservative must see the advantage of altering old traditions, lest the traditions themselves, no longer useful in the race of progress, fall by the way and perish...
These names are in alphabetical order, not in order of election...
...last the only consideration; but in cases where, judged by grades alone, many are tied and the last stand not far from the first, other evidences of intellectual ability are used to give greater significance to grades, such as the winning of prizes, newspaper work of a literary order, and other marked attainments in the field of literature. The results of the elections are submitted for approval to a graduate committee headed by President Lowell...
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are blameless. Both groups, drunk with partisanship and selfish ambitions, have preferred national ignominy to sacrificing their party pride. Although "get together" has been the people's instructions to their Senators for the last six months, obstinacy and arbitrariness have been the order...