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...fighting this year is one peculiarly dear to Harvard men who have vanquished the vaunted spectre of indifference and who feel themselves called to a wider, nobler, service than that to which the usual political program leads. For, after all, the tariff, the merchant marine and civil service reform, however long and heatedly they may be discussed are not the dominant issues of this campaign. The pivot on which the election really turns is the maintenance of the national spirit, of that love of liberty which does not seek to become license that has made America great in times past...
...second half-year, and will lecture on the "Social Organization of the Argentine Republic"; S. K. Ratcliffe, editorial writer on the Manchester Guardian, who will deliver four lectures on "Makers of English Life and Thought," and Louis U. Wilkinson of Oxford, whose subject is "The Evolution of Modern Reform in England...
...Subsequent Progress and Decadence of the Turkish Empire. Efforts at Reform. Young Turkey. Deposition of Abdul Hamid...
...year 1905 was marked in football by a wave of reform which swept across the country. Colleges everywhere threatened to discontinue the game, unless it were made less rough and more free from opportunities for players to be seriously injured. In the following year the Football Rules Committee, composed of representatives of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Annapolis, and the University of Chicago, was forced by public opinion to join forces with a committee appointed by the National Intercollegiate Athletic Association to reform the sport...
...throughout all his factories, domestic and foreign, which has brought him to the front of employers of labor. His remarkable way of dealing with the many thousands of men in his employ has won him a foremost position as a practical sociologist. His interest in prison reform has led him to offer jobs in his factories to men just out of prison, and he now employs 600 ex-convicts from Sing Sing prison...