Word: reformable
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...that the play seemed a different play. At the Saturday afternoon performance Mihail Tarkhanoff played Luka. It would be difficult to think of a more perfect performance of the part. He played him with humor, and yet with sympathy, played him so quietly and so humanly that desire for reform became more than understandable, and the sudden forgetfulness of him in the last act seemed all the more tragic. The Nastya of Alla Tarassova was made of less common clay than that of Pauline Lord's. She was a prostitute, she was sunk to the extremities of the life seen...
...impose a tax of one-half of one per cent on the gross receipts of over $500 of all manufacturers, merchants, retailers, professional men and workers, sales of farm products by the producer alone exempted. The money so raised was to have been spent on colleges, the penitentiary, reform schools and other public institutions...
...conference will start at luncheon tomorrow noon when President Meiklejohn will discuss "The Role of the College Student in Administrative and Curricular Reform". At dinner the same day Professor Robinson will talk upon "Of What Importance that the Student have a Social and Political Mission?" A breakfast discussion on Sunday morning will be devoted to problems of defining, formulating, and especially executing liberal policies in the field of student activities. The delegates will give brief descriptive and expositional reports on college forums, curricular, liberal journals, and constructive aspects of student government. The situations abroad will be discussed...
...persuade Charlie that he should marry her at all. The whole performance is a working out of the problem whether this extraordinary young man whose "life is too full to marry" will be convinced of the error of his ways, or whether he will go on trying to reform the world...
...That the schools promptly reform their methods so that the rudimentary studies as well as science be taught only as subordinate to righteousness...