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There would seem prima facie to be no good cause for not instituting some reform immediately. The subject has been approached several times before without effect, and on each occasion, no reasons have been given for the failure to respond to a not inconsiderable demand for change. The CRIMSON urges strongly, that the faculty consider before the next term opens the advisability of allowing seniors who will be eligible for a degree if they pass three courses at the end of the next half year, the privilege of taking only that number of courses...
...usual thing tomorrow. Then, perhaps, the question of higher salaries can be discussed--not while the offices are in the hands of incompetent men. With city government in its present deplorable state, it should require only a few strong leaders to start the much-needed movement toward reform. Even Senator Walsh tacitly admits that conditions could be bettered, while at the same time he advises against the one thing that could bring about that betterment. So long as this attitude continues to exist just so long will city politics be the black sleep of the American environmental system...
...were misguided enough to interfere with some young professionals for trying to break into a fur shop. One young man was shot fatally. In 1916 he had been convicted of burglary. His sentence was suspended. In the same year he brought forth fruits meet for repentance. Advancing gradually toward reform, he contented himself with petit larceny and was sent to the penitentiary therefor. Since then he had been arrested twice for grand larceny, once for burglary. The police have rudely interfered with his further steps toward reclamation. Six of his partners in public service, nabbed by the police, have consonant...
Back of this reform is a motive of deep significance; a move toward truth in advertising. One can sell an article by loud-mouthed shouting after the fashion of a side-show barker, or by an honest effort to set the facts before the purchaser. The same movement is seen in the newspapers which strive first of all for an impartial presenting of events--facts alone--in the news columns. Some periodicals have carried this reform to the advertising pages; they investigate the truth of what they publish. And why not? The day has come when one looks askance...
...Tuesday, members of the Liberal Club will here Mr. Lewis C. Strang of Boston, a Christian Science healer who is also interested in social reform...