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...Civil Service Reform Club will hold a meeting in Sever 11 tonight, to which all members of the University are invited. Addresses have been promised from Mr. R. H. Dana '74 and Professor A. Lawrence Lowell. New officers will also be elected...
...main object of the meeting is to lay before the students the real aims of the reform; and to offer an intelligent way of meeting the great difficulties of our governmental system. The success of any effort made by the club, however, depends largely on undergraduate support, and for this reason it is hoped that a large number of men will be present. Men who are interested in the purposes of the club may join it by paying the annual dues of one dollar to the Secretary for the coming year...
...Republican Club last night adopted a platform endorsing the administration of President McKinley and approving the following measures: The late currency bill and the other financial legislation of the administration; the protective tarriff; a rigid adherence to the principles of civil service reform and of their extension to our new possessions; state and federal control of dangerous trusts; publicity of the affairs of trusts and removal of all duty on commodities controlled by trusts; government construction of the Isthmian canal; permanent retention of the Philippines. The policy of the administration regarding the Philippines was also endorsed...
Transcendentalism as a reform movement assumed so many shapes that any one who became involved in a new school of thought of any description was considered a heretic. This accounts in part for the public disapproval of the Brook Farm enterprise. It is remarkable, however, that many of those who visited Brook Farm, men like George Ripley, Charles Dana, and George William Curtis, were noted for their abilities in many branches of life. The presence of such men in the movement is the best guarantee of its sanity...
...results of the reform seemed transitory. Individual lives were undoubtedly affected by the intense antagonism shown toward the Church, and many weak minds succumbed to fanaticism. We are now on the receding wave of the movement and therefore we are in a position to see the mistakes made in earlier times and to profit by them...