Word: reformable
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Lampy totters on the threshold of reform. Would it not be better to revert to the old maxim, "Nothing is new, nothing is true, and nothing matters?" and like the Pied Piper of Hamlin, lure with sweet music the rats and the vermin from their haunts, to be drowned in the scum of the Charles...
...ready to blame inefficiency on the administration, especially the Democratic administration, and to neglect he cumbersome machinery of checks and balances under which they work, and the failure of our civil service to develop experts. The question to be asked when a reform is brought before the people is not "Does it conflict with a tradition?" but rather "Is the tradition applicable to modern methods, and will the proposed reform give us better, more efficient government?" We have allowed vague references to Washington's Farewell Address to be urged as applicable to present international relations, and such absurd arguments have...
...leader in the formation of an International Consortium which shall finance China. For three reasons the formation of such a partnership is essential to our welfare. First, in order to secure the large sums of money which are necessary to finance new railroads, and other forms of communication, to reform the monetary system of China, and to develop industrial and commercial enterprises. Secondly, to insure the expenditures of money so loaned to us upon the objects for which it is borrowed by the Chinese government...
...Glee Club will present the first of a novel series of concerts to be inaugurated by it this season. Since its separation from the Musical Clubs the Glee Club has attempted to raise the standard of the music which it will present. On this score, in explaining the recent reform in the Glee Club, Dr. Richard C. Cabot '89 has made the following statement...
...Harvard Glee Club has been recently reorganized so as to represent the best musical ability in college and has cut itself loose altogether from social considerations in the selection of its members. This is a reform parallel to that which took place some years ago in the teams representing Harvard in intercollegiate athletics. Men used to be chosen for those teams not solely because of athletics ability but sometimes because they belonged to certain clubs or were otherwise socially approved...