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...Republicans and Reform, 1877-1884," Professor Schlesinger, New Lecture Hall, History...
...several of the 48 states, the reform-urgers might have crusaded against even more lenient laws. In five southern states, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia, twelve-year-old girls may take the marriage vow with their parents' consent; in New Hampshire 13 years' experience of this world is considered sufficient for wedlock...
...undoubtedly too much to expect American politics to turn back toward the great tradition of English statesmanship set by Peel and Gladstone, which set principle before party, reform before office, or toward the precedent set by the first President of the United States who intentionally gave up the reins of power at the end of his second term. But it is an insult to the electorate to allow mere vote-getting to be so brazen...
Proposals for "reforming" intercollegiate football may seem to some much like projects for perpetual motion; but the plan of such a man as President Hopkins of Dartmouth, a strong friend of athletics and sometime athletic graduate manager at Hanover, cannot but receive respectful attention. . . His suggestion that a conference of colleges and universities be called to consider football "reform," deserves to be acted on. New York Times...
...from suggestion such as it sponsored by President Hopkins of Dartmouth that great reforms grow. The Dartmouth leader's views are merely an opening wedge in ultimate correction of certain evils in intercollegiate football, not in the game itself, but in the background. "Hoppy," as all Dartmouth men know him, probably hasn't reached the solution, but he will start college presidents thinking about the general problem again and someone may hit upon a practical reform platform which is feasible. "Observer" in Boston Traveler...