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Such is the stage set for the entrance into the field of a third party. In Senator Borah's words, the people want progress, action, and reform. If they cannot bring it about within the present parties, they want a new party. Whether the third entry will prove a temporary one like the Progressives of 1912, or will come into the field for a long stay, like the Republicans, rising from the ruins of the Whigs in 1856, is an open conjecture. But the stage is set for a political turn-over, and the new party, temporary or permanent, will...
...Politics" in a new American thesaurus might be bracketed with "unfairness", "laxity", "bribery", "corruption", "venality", "nepotism", and "fraud". These terms fly about whenever our thick political mud is stirred by investigation, reform, or election. By a process of association these ideas are inseparably connected. We laugh at humorists who use this condition as a theme, yet it is the thoughtless laughter which reflection stifles...
...with his appointment as Deputy Police Commissioner in New York City, began Colonel Wood's important work in connection with the Police Department of the Metropolis. When John Purray Mitchell was elected mayor on a reform ticket in 1914 one of his first and most important appointments was that of Colonel Woods as Police Commissioner. During the three years that followed, the latter reorganized the Police Department and enforced the laws of New York in a capable manner...
...29th, 1917, the CRIMSON advocated a 10-cent fare, due to the fact the Elevated 8-cent pieces were Jamming the telephone pay stations; that on April 19, 1918, the CRIMSON held out for a maximum 7-cent fare, and last year offered as the first plank in its reform of Massachusetts a 5-cent fare-the exact stand taken now by the "Boston American" and the "Boston Telegram"? Would they be interested in keeping ahead of the game by shouting with us for a 3-cent fare tomorrow? Would they care to hear about the monster rally yesterday when...
...specific results. Its very vagueness is proof of the fact that the problems of various institutions differ greatly; that a definite solution can not be reached by unified action. General meetings of college presidents or undergraduate representatives crystallize opinion; beyond that little is accomplished. The ultimate goal is a reform, national in scope, which will be brought about only by measures adopted by individual institutions to meet their particular problems...