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...John Jay Chapman '84 spoke informally in the Fogg Lecture Room last night, on "Public Opinion." Mr. Chapman began by referring to the corrupt conditions prevailing in New York since 1871. Little by little, reform work has been taken up, at first, almost unconsciously, recently, with clear purpose and understanding. In former times people thought that their political duties ended with a little bribery of the tax collector; they never cared for whom they voted. Now, the whole system of modern reform is analogous to the religious reforms of the Middle Ages, and men go into politics for the sake...
...Most reform movements are started by groups of a few men. There is a great danger in this fact, though it is one not easy to perceive. When the standard, the ideal, is set by a group, it is certain to be lower than when upheld by an individual, and the public, seeing a spirit of compromise in the new organization, at once loses all faith in it. Here we have the secret of the failure of many such enterprises, and it is hard to blame any one for it. Indeed, the claim is made that a practical politician, though...
...John Jay Chapman '84 will speak in the Fogg Museum Lecture Room this evening at 8 o'clock, under the auspices of the Civil Service Reform Club. The address will be an informal narrative of interesting phases of political corruption and the work of reform, under the general subject of "Public Opinion." Members of the University are requested to arrive before 7.55, after which time the doors will be open to the public...
...Thursday evening at eight o'clock, Mr. John Jay Chapman '84 will give a public address in the Fogg Lecture Room under the auspices of the Civil Service. Reform Club. Mr. Chapman, the author of "Causes and Consequences," and other political articles, and of "Emerson and Other Essays," has been a conspicuous figure among the radical reformers in New York politics for several years past. He will talk on a subject of contemporary interest in practical politics...
...great dangers exist, and that the psycho-pedagogical movement does most damage, not because it so much affects the teacher, but because it, together with the elective studies, turns the attention of the public from the only essential and important point upon which, I feel deeply convinced, the true reform of our schools is dependent: the better instruction of our teachers...