Word: civil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Civil and moral constitutions...
...minor poet. I happened lately to glance over the catalogue of a "university" of about 400 students, which "university" consists simply of a school of general literature and a school of technology. Yet this institution grants eight kinds of degrees at graduation: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, civil engineer, mechanical engineer, bachelor of science in mining and metallurgy, engineer of mines and metallurgist, electrical engineer and analytical chemist, besides higher degrees of M. A., M. S. and Ph. D. In presence of such a collection of high-sounding names, a modest Harvard man stands aghast until he remembers that...
...dinner following the recent Yale Glee Club concert in Pittsburg, Bishop Whitehead, '63, of Western Pennsylvania, described the first trip of the glee club during the Civil War, when, dressed in blue suits and red sashes, they traveled around singing campaign songs...
...would not improve the civil service.- N. A. Rev., Dec., 1887, 4; Lambert, Progress of Civil Service Reform, 7-24.- Civil Service Record...
...party of true civil service reform, and opposed to the Democratic principle of "reform without works." References: Senator Hale's speech of Jan. 11 1888, in Boston Herald of Jan. 12, and in Congressional Record...