Word: civile
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...until the passage of the Bland-Allison bill, in the early part of 1878, that public attention was forcibly called to the matter. Since then the importance of the question has slowly grown, until now the people are paying as much heed to it as to the tariff and civil service reform...
...Cornell Mock Congress is now discussing reforms of the civil service...
...nearly 1300 persons examined last year by the state civil service commission, only 25 were college graduates...
...esteemed contemporary, the Advocate, makes a suggestion in its last number which is timely and worthy of consideration. Civil service reform is attracting much attention in political life at present, and with justice. It is the important question of the day. College men, and we refer particularly to Harvard undergraduates, have little or no real knowledge of the right and wrong of the matter, and the Advocate's suggestion of a course of lectures on the subject by prominent civil service reformers, is very pertinent. Cannot the authorities of the college, or some one of our energetic societies, take...
...following is copied from a student's notes of one of Prof. Norton's recent lectures, - "Moral sentiment is of very slow growth. A few days since Mr. Lowell was speaking to a body of students, 20 or 30 in number, in regard to civil service reform. He spoke with great earnestness in respect to the reform as having a moral element, as being of no less importance than the old anti-slavery contest, in some aspects, perhaps, even of greater consequence than that. When he spoke in this way in regard to the moral principle involved in civil service...