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...their oldtime virtues. But then he turns around to ballyhoo Progress harder than anyone and to give his contemporaries credit for planting in Modern Youth a virtue greater than ever. This is curious because it reveals in himself a refinement of the very vice he has set out to reform-boasting. Nor does he demonstrate that the "new" virtue is wisdom and not a surface application of mass education, theory, platitudes...
...against the teaching of religion in public schools, by obtaining rules to release pupils from school in order that they may attend Bible classes elsewhere but on school time; and what with new anti-Evolution bills coming up in Arkansas and other state legislatureshow far the Fundamentalist determination to reform the country extends. News from Atlanta, Ga., contained a hint of notable latitude. There the loudest speaker of all Fundamentaldom, Dr. John Roach Straton of the Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, had been imported to address the mother chapter of "The Supreme Kingdom," a high-powered crusading fraternity founded last winter...
...policy was to secure the internal material welfare of Sardinia, so that she might become the leader in the struggle for Italian unity and independence. By a comprehensive revision of taxes and a stiffening of the industrial backbone of the country, he procured his desired internal reform...
Seldom has a single man achieved such a large reform. Others have tried to do this very thing, notably Thomas Jefferson in his plans for the University of Virgiuia, but Charles William Eliot was the first who succeeded...
...machines in themselves are not necessarily bad. Tammany Hall is, on the whole, a good example of the efficient, reasonably clean type. The Vare machine on the other hand, appears to be the most flagrantly vicious in the country. One wonders what the Committee of Seventy in supposedly civic reform league organized several decades ago, has been doing all this time to justify its existence...