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Word: reforms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EUREKA. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...second necessary reform is to allow a man to be a candidate for the same prize but once. It is reasonable for a man who has taken a second prize one year to try for a first prize the next year. But for a man to take the first prize for two successive years, seems to us unfair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOYLSTON PRIZES. | 6/18/1875 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOLUNTARY RECITATION, AND THE MARKING SYSTEM. | 6/18/1875 | See Source »

...spelling-matches, and laments the fact that the students of Hartford are not enthusiastic enough to engage in a contest with the High School girls. It complains that many men of "considerable literary ability commit the grossest sins against syntax and orthography," and it holds that spelling-matches will reform them. The writer of this article is certainly free from the faults of the able gentlemen whom he mentions; whether he shares in any of their other characteristics may admit of dispute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/9/1875 | See Source »

...beautiful as the bowers of the Arabian Nights, to Aspinwall, a city infinitesimally small and infinitely bad. On the whole, my "Search after Happiness" in tropical climes had not been a startling success, and I determined to take the first opportunity to reach a civilized country where the Dress Reform had not such complete sway, and where one could search for a lady with Diogenes's lantern; though I fear even that would be useless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SEARCH AFTER HAPPINESS. | 2/26/1875 | See Source »

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