Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...application of civil service provisions was extended to the consular services by the Executive Order of June 27, 1906. This means that entrance to the service is dependent upon examination and that transfer and promotion are regulated solely by the merit system and by seniority. For from being subject to the spoils system, the consular service has been rigorously governed by this Executive Order throughout the last two presidential administrations, and it has been intimated by the present administration and already indicated by such transfers and promotions as have occurred since March 4, 1913, that civil service principles with regard...
...remuneration. And the answer to the problem is so simple that its simplicity has probably caused it to be overlooked: In this country, almost alone of the great nations, the service is caught in such a mesh of politics, is so far removed from the real advantages of the civil service that men cannot run the risks of sudden unemployment attached to it. There is no doubt but that college men would enter the consular service in as great numbers and of as good character as could be wanted, could the service be removed from the vagaries of changing administrations...
...assistant in the Library in charge of the Archives,--a position which gave him an opportunity to study and to write. In 1901-1902 he was University Lecturer in Modern History, giving a half-course on "The Constitutional and Political History of the United States since the Civil...
Instructors. Sheldon Smith Yates, Civil Engineering; Chester Laurens Dawes, Emory Leon Chaffee, and Harold Gilliland Crane, Electrical Engineering; John Wymond Miller Bunker, Sanitary Analysis; Melville Conley Whipple, Sanitary Chemistry; Horace Upham Ranson, Civil Engineering; Edward Russell Markham, Shopwork; Walter Scott Weeks, Mining; Harold Broadfield Warren, Freehand Drawing; Hermann Dudley Murphy; Drawing from the Life; Henry Atherton Frost, Architecture; Roger Noble Burnham, Modelling; David Locke Webster, Applied Mechanics; Charles Obstetrics; Robert Montraville Green,eering...
...clock. The cause of his death was an absess of the brain, following an illness of one week. While in college, Mr. Bishop was very prominent in class affairs and was an editor of the Lampoon. After his graduation, he went to Columbia where he received a degree in civil engineering in 1905. The greater part of the time since graduation has been spent in the employ of the United Railroads of San Francisco. He is survived by his wife Katherine Marvin Bishop, of San Francisco. The funeral will be held at the Waterman Chapel, 2328 Washington Street, Boston, tomorrow...