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...this city in Church circles we have the Rev. Irving Berg, Pastor of the Fort Washington (Congregational) ; the Rev J. Frederic Berg, Pastor of the Flatbush Dutch Reform Church; and for almost half a century, Albert Wilhelm Berg (now deceased) was the organist of the famous Little Church Around the Corner (Episcopal...
...solves the question of representation to some extent by granting a representative to each fraternity, and by making class officers ex officio members. But this makes for a body too large and unwieldy to be effective,--witness the dismal inertia of the portentous Harvard Student Council before the reform...
...just in time for the flood of early nineteenth century Romanticism, Robert Owen, son of a Welsh saddle-monger, managed in the course of his long life to embrace most of the intellectual innovations which were awakening England from its lethargy of unadulterated nationalism. Agnosticism, spiritualism, free-love, social reform, the cooperative system--at one time or another he tried them all. But in spite of his tendency toward mere theorizing he was practical enough to ameliorate the condition of the factory workers and to offer, in the shape of his New Lanark experiment, his idea of a model town...
Senator Reed is a destructive, not a constructive force in lawmaking, but he is consistent. He believes that the reform wave of the last two decades, which would create laws and Federal bureaus to cure every popular ill, is mischievous. If this is continued to its ultimate complexity, every time a citizen has a toe ache he will write to his Congressman to put through a bill creating a staff of Federal doctors to soothe such maladies. Senator Reed would have better execution of the existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over...
This is undoubtedly true in matters involving discipline and undergraduate morale. No true educator could be found today to hold that any such reform can ever be effectively instituted without the sympathy and support of the students themselves. The question of cooperation in strictly educational problems is not so clear. For concrete proof of success of such a policy as that inaugurated by the Overseers, we will have to wait. Probably much will have to be done in organizing public opinion and in educating response before such proof can even be looked for. It is undeniable that the student...