Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Washington, widely known as an educator and one of the most enlightened of his race, was born at Hale's Ford, Virginia, just before the Civil War. His ambition for knowledge led him to travel five hundred miles "by walking and begging rides in both wagons and in cars" to Hampton Institute, from which he graduated in 1875, later becoming an instructor there. Since 1881 he has been head of the negro school at Tuskegee, Alabama. Opened in July of that year, the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute became under his administration the foremost exponent of industrial education...
Figures of the relative development of the New England Civil War volunteers and of the men enlisting today bear out in another field the conclusion drawn above...
...Secretary of the Navy in President Roosevelt's first cabinet and during the period 1906-1909 was Attorney-General of the United States. He served as an Overseer of Harvard College from 1891 to 1903. Mr. Bonaparte has been president of the National Municipal League and of the Civil Service Reform League...
With regard to the diplomatic service, all secretaries of embassy and legation are likewise protected under civil service provisions by the Executive Order of November 26, 1909, and in this case also it has been intimated by the present administration that the Order is to be respected. Examinations are held in Washington annually, or oftener as occasion may require; candidates who pass the examination are admitted only to the lower grades of the service as vacancies occur, without regard to their political affiliations, and transfer and promotion are governed by seniority and merit...
...unfortunately true that the positions of ambassador and minister are still regarded as excepted from these civil service principles but it must be remembered that the great progress already made in the permanency of both the diplomatic and consular services has been effected within the last few years, after over a century of the spoils system, and that perfection cannot be expected overnight. Taking into consideration the present sentiment of the country in regard to the entire question, there seems to be every indication that the offices of ambassador and minister will eventually be in part if not largely filled...