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...Reform, if necessary, must come from within. It must come from an awakening of the spirit of Harvard men present and past. To think of making or unmaking ideals of scholarship and service by investigating committees and legal procedure is puerile. And moreover the danger is not what it is pictured to be. The concentrating of vocational preparation for business in a graduate school devoted to that end is a most effective means of relieving the College of the vocational burden it has partly attempted to bear. More than ever before it can become a true center of the teaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVILS--AND EVILS | 1/17/1925 | See Source »

Easter. The Roman Catholic, Greek, English and .some other churches have joined in the movement to reform the calendar insofar as fixing a specific date for Easter is concerned. (Easter is now fixed in relation to the phases of the moon. This arrangement was made at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A. D. in order to give persons making Easter pilgrimages a waxing moon on their journey and a waning moon on their trip back home).-M. B. Cotsworth, Director of the International Fixed Calendar League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grand Conclave | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...Science, often at war, come together at two points in the anual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, William J. Bryan was accused of being a poor Christian because he is no scientist. The agreement of several churches to join a movement for calendar reform by fixing a uniform date for Easter was announced. (See SCIENCE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Two Contrasts | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...loan. We must then see that sources of production in our country are revived; that commerce and industry reach a state of flourishing development-conditions which are necessary if we are to supply our needs by ourselves. Economic stability once established, we can apply constructive plans for social reform, which is the aim of our Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Resurrecting Mexico | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

Harlots are the puppets of the piece. Jerry Strong, clubman, wagers he can reform a street walker. In the process, he falls in love with her in time to ring down as tawdry and dishonest a curtain as the Theatre has seen this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 5, 1925 | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

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