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When he resigned from Maine last July, his criticism of the support given the university by the state was sharp and to the point. In accepting the new position, he felt that the opportunities for educational reform were far greater than at Maine, as the University of Michigan is much larger in numbers and in facilities...
...Senate Reform. Canadian Senators are at present appointed for life by the Governor General, on the recommendation of the Premier in power when a seat falls vacant. In the past there has been a majority of Conservative Premiers, who the Liberals claim have stuffed the Senate with old-foggyism. They will ask the electorate for power to "end or mend" the Senate. Conservatives will maintain that Solons of the Senate's present calibre would not stoop to campaign for their seats, would abandon the Senate to featherbrains, if not honored as they deserve for life...
...issues which could be disposed of only by a new parliament and a party with a substantial majority in the House. The four issues are: 1) transportation-plans for a combination in ocean carrying; 2) immigration undertaking of a vigorous distributing policy; 3) reduction of taxation; 4) senate reform-making the senate elective instead of appointive and depriving it of all but a suspensory veto...
...deceive himself that the change of opinion on these matters is one which affects only a small educated class. Let no one suppose that it is the working class which is going to be shocked with the idea of birth control or marriage reform. For them, these suggest new liberty and emancipation from the most intolerable of tyrannies...
Prof. White calls the translation "Dartmouth's Reform in College Education ... the most fundamental changes in American academic policy since Dr. Eliot's introduction of the elective system at Harvard." Fundamental changes they are indeed, though not new departures, since they embody ideas already mustered into the policies of some other U. S. colleges, notably Princeton. But they are changes of great interest to educators, especially in their collective appearance at a single college...