Word: civil
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dorman B. Eaton has satisfactorily explained the charges against the civil service commission in the matter of the employment of a stenographer...
...garden, we chartered a carriage and took Harvard first, pulling up at the handsome pile called the Harvard Memorial Hall, in the beautiful and lofty transept of which a multitude of tablets commemorate the names of the gallant graduates of Harvard who fell twenty years ago in the civil war. In the same building is a magnificent dining hall, decorated with portraits and busts of eminent Americans, and, as it was near luncheon time, we thought we would wait to see whether the American student played as good a knife and fork as our own Cambridge boys at home...
...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 evil in existence as regards society and the state. It is the chief obstacle to the extermination of ignorance and pauperism. The question of temperance is no namby-pamby affair, no goody goody subject. It is a great question of political economy, of history...
...modern life is every day running towards specialization, and this tendency will undoubtedly soon be a factor in political life. In England and Germany men fit themselves specially for politics, just as others do for medicine and law. Many schools have been founded specially to prepare for the civil service examinations. The introduction of civil service reform in this country will soon necessitate such special preparation here. The universities will be expected to act as feeders and to provide the necessary instruction for passing the examinations. If the universities fail to offer this instruction, special schools will spring...
...limited number of students from Pennsylvania who have had a high school education. The original bequest was $500,000, which was largely increased at the death of Mr. Packer, and is now further increased by his son's will. The course at Lehigh is technical, mainly engineering, civil, mining and electrical, and is so rigorous that heretofore but few men have graduated in each year. The university is responsible for each graduate until he obtains a situation elsewhere; and graduates usually obtain excellent positions without difficulty shortly after receiving their diplomas. The university is only about ten years...