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...there to be a run on bank Presidents as other universities perceive the necessity of competing with Harvard in business instruction? The addition of "dollar-a-year men" eminent in finance to the faculties of American colleges will exemplify a curiously modern progress away from old ideals of a college education. New York World
Without a diminution of class-room work, the tutorial system is bound to be arrested of its progress...
...legislative reform which seems plausible consists in the establishment of a committee whose sole duty would be the drafting of bills in such form that time may not be lost on the floor of the House in quibbling over details of phraseology and legality. Coordination of effort and legislative progress would be the result of these changes...
...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...
...make impssible the advocacy of radical reform. The true function of government is to guarantee to its citizens the free exercise of these rights rather thatn to limit or deny them. The whole historyof repression shows us that all repressive measures have been inseparable from tyranny and that true progress has been away from such legislation...