Word: reformable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clergy of Providence, R. I., irrespective of creed, held a meeting in that city yesterday afternoon, and took decided action in favor of civil service reform...
...best of physical exercise we firmly believe is to be got from athletic sports. When then the present reform has brought it about that every student shall find his place in some athletic sport, it can be said that the agitation now so frequent will not have been in vain. But not until this result seems in some fair way of being attained should the agitation for this end cease. The same writer we have quoted also says very forcibly: "The great danger which besets our college students is not an undue fondness for open-air sports, but the direct...
...such a gross excess as it is at Harvard, it seems high time to cry Halt, and to make a stand against it. Absurd as it may seem, there is no doubt that the practice will presently be laid to the charge of Harvard "snobbishness," and, therefore, although the reform is open to the almost fatal objection of originating at Yale, it would seem necessary for Harvard, too, to adopt it at whatever sacrifice of independence and comfort on our own part...
...thesis in Political Economy II., on tariff reform is due today...
...also spoke as an atonement for the past. Nobody questions the extent of the evils of intemperance fostering nine-tenths of all crime, with its immense cost, equal to the amount of the manufacturing wages of the United States. Harvard men are always full of suggestions on the reform of the conduct of government, but on the question of temperance they are decidedly shrinking, and yet the question of temperance is by far the most important economical question of the day, throwing completely into the shade the reform of the tariff or of the civil service. Intemperance is the greatest...