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...same time, this interest in the election is not only a good thing for us, but our influence can and should be a good thing for the country. It can be, for what college men can do to help reform has been shown in Wisconsin and in many other states. It should be, for at this time the country is passing through a crisis in its political development that calls for tact and intelligence...
Governor Bass formerly served both in the House of Representatives and Senate of New Hampshire, and was responsible for reform in several departments. He has devoted a great deal of attention to the advancement of forestry in New Hampshire, and is now president of the Forestry Commission. He is also recognized as the leader of the Progressive Movement in New England. The lecture will be open to all members of the University...
...Temperley gave History 12a, the course on English history from the Revolution of 1688 to the Reform Bill, which was so long given by Professor Macvane, and a special course on The Growth of the British Empire, and also directed the research of a few graduate students in recent English history...
Governor Woodrow Wilson's address of last Saturday brings out many points of very special interest in these days of strenuous and earnest social reform movement. There is a common error nowadays into which the over-zealous reformer is very apt to fall, namely that of judging the value of a principle or an action solely by its indirect consequences. Thus, in private property rights, the socialist sees an evil, not because the holding of private property is in itself a wrong, but because evil has resulted from the abuse of this right. In like manner he declares the present...
...this way, its professors, especially those of Economics, Government, and Law frequently lending their training and knowledge for the benefit of government investigation. It is true that Harvard professors, unlike Governor Wilson and Governor Baldwin (who was long with the Yale faculty), prefer to act as advisers in various reform movements rather than to enter the field as candidates for election. But even so, the present attitude is in strong contrast to the old feeling that an educator could have no part in politics, when, with the predominance of the classics, the professor felt it far beneath his dignity...