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...most unusual inaugural speech, in March, 1925, the Vice President amazed the Senate by sentences such as: "Reform in the present rules of the Senate is demanded not only by American public opinion, but, I venture to say, in the individual consciences of the Senate itself...
...Jason Franklin Chase, an ordained Methodist preacher, has ever been concerned with the problems of social reform. He was appointed four times delegate to the International Purity Federation by President Wilson, instigated the fight against "dope traffic" in Boston and has been active in the "white slave" movement...
...political overflow have a rather small place in the undergraduate's platform of action. They are of the world beyond. And, while it would be disastrous to neglect the approach of that world, it would be fatuous to desert more impinging problems for it. If youth revolt and student reform are desirable, they are desirable where student comprehension is sufficient to insure both the sanity of new propositions and the discovery of effective reforming methods. It is the latter, attained through the former that will make college graduates fruitful innovators after college years...
...wisdom of returning Rhodes scholars is evident in the proposal put forth by the Harvard Student Council to organize the undergraduate body into residential groups analogous to the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. When Woodlow Wilson undertook a similar reform at Princeton he failed for lack of understanding of the English universities--perhaps also of the American undergraduate. His theory was rigidly "democratic." In each "quad" there were to be so man" rich men, so many poor men; so many "prep-school" men and so many men from public school; so many Northerners, Southerners, Westerners. As if this leveling were...
...taken leadership in the training of law years for able service not alone of private clients, but of the public interest. Of late, however, the school has seen opportunities of usefulness rising before it with freshly forceful insistence, as in the case of the much-needed reform of American administration of criminal justice. In the urgency of such calls, it has found new courage to make open appeal for the funds required to answer them, and we are glad that it has done so. Every dollar of that portion of the five millions of new endowment which...