Word: reformable
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...feeling from which it is hoped Harvard has emancipated herself, that I was not unprepared for the disapproval I soon began to feel in reading the article. As I continued to read, however, disapproval deepened into indignation. The question of open elections no longer seemed an unsettled issue. That reform was not the modification of an institution for the sake of convenience in which case further modification, or even the return to the old state of things, would be conceivable; but open election, it was thought, meant the assertion of a principle, from which it would be impossible to retrograde...
...vexatious delay, in our fierce rush through life, to shovel in enough food to keep the machine going for a day. The writer said that Harvard was trying to refine her sons by obliging them to have three separate courses at dinner, and, though that particular reform may have been unnecessary, there is certainly plenty of room for further improvements. The price is too low to allow our meals to be made appetizing, and much of our food is therefore of a cheap kind; the meats are from inferior cuts, or are not well carved; we do not have anything...
...contribute equally to that success, so that it is but fair that those men should be chosen for the more important places to whom the success of the arrangements is of the greatest importance. If petty jealousies are subdued, we may be sure that the "Reform Act of '76," as some one called it, will long be remembered as making an honorable change in the history of College politics...
This barbarous state of things should continue no longer. Let Harvard, ever foremost in improvement, adopt this last, this final reform, - the complement of the elective system. Then soon will she see her graduates far surpassing in learning and intellect those of the most renowned universities of the Old World...
...direction is reform more urgently needed than in recitations,-the plan of conducting them, the system of work, and the requirements as to attendance. I submit to whom it may concern the following plan...