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...These reforms have been secured largely by means of public markets and common schools at which the widely differing tribes could be brought together in peaceful intercourse. While these innovations were not looked upon with favor by the former chieftains, the natives accepted them with great readiness once they fully understood that thus they secured greater freedom than had ever previously existed. The United States Army, contrary to the custom of the Spaniards, has always adopted a policy of complete religious toleration and has directed its efforts almost entirely towards economic reform, a fact which has been of the first...
...find such recommendations for improvements and outlines of reform the Advocate has continued the policy inaugurated last year of holding a prize contest open to students of Harvard College. As subjects for the prize essays the Advocate has selected six vital problems of the University and allows the contestants to take any point of view they choose in considering the issue. This has been done with the hope of obtaining at least the beginnings of practical answers to these six important subjects. Certainly this contest affords an admirable chance to all students in the College to give their views...
...real problems of the day. The Progressives are quite willing to be recognized as the great conservative force in the political conflict which actively beginning in 1912, is to go on for years to come. Mr. Henderson believes that "the time will inevitably come when the Progressive party, its reform program enacted, will disintegrate; for capital, which fills the party's war chest, and labor, which gives it most of its votes, cannot long lie together in peace." Inasmuch as from the Socialist point of view, the Republican and Democratic parties have already ceased to be vital forces, this would...
Other churches represented were: Christian, Swedenborgian, Reform Jewish, Ethical Culture, Quakers, Dutch Reform, Evangelist, Buddhist, Greek, Hindu, Moravian, Disciplers, Reform Church. Of these, none were represented by more than nine...
...straight path to a righteous solution of those problems lies in a sense of duty on the part of the possessor. It is the habit of the day to decry loudly the iniquity of others, to assume that in attacking them we perform our public duty; that by reforming them we fulfill the moral law. Such an attitude has its value. It corrects gross abuses; but by itself it is not a principle that makes for the highest type of civilization. Carlisle remarked of the French Revolution that everyone wanted to reform the world, but no one began by reforming...