Word: reformable
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...fast approaching a decision at Harvard. The battle appears to be between the faculty and the overseers, and in the anti-Greek party are President Eliot, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Supt. Seams of the Boston public schools, and, of course, Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Professor Agassiz favors the reform party.-[Graphic...
...Argo.IN FAVOR OF REFORM...
...most conservative habit of mind unite in a sympathetic chorus of disapprobation. Professor Norton, Professor Child, and Professor White, besides many others have particularly expressed the most positive opinions on the subject. And as yet so far as we know no more has been done either towards reform or towards an abolition of the system. It is indeed an exceedingly humiliating thought that the combined wisdom and experience of the Harvard faculty cannot or does not devise some substitute or reform for the present evil methods...
...thrust our youth, in all their unwarned ignorance, through the open gate of life-while, I say, such a system as this continues and flourishes, which most practical men have long scorned with an immeasurable contempt, do not let us consider that we have advanced a single step in reforming education, to reform which, in the words of Leibnitz, is to reform society and to reform mankind...
...well as the bounds of prudence, and we think that in common justice to the students, the faculty should refuse to sanction their action. When this is done, if the faculty still see any grounds for objecting to foot ball as at present played, we do not doubt that reform measures can be adopted, which may even receive foreign co-operation, and which will not in any case put Harvard students in an unpleasant position, nor impose upon those of other colleges...