Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should be submitted to the Senate. The name "private documents" cannot be applied to documents which relate in any way to the execution of the powers of government. Many precedents were cited where the Senate had obtained papers from the President. It was claimed inconsistent that Cleveland, avowedly the Civil Service Reform President, should remove a Republican, and then refuse to give reasons. The removal seemed a political...
...Harvard Crimson in a recent article refers to the proposition to establish a school of Political Science at Washington for the training of candidates for our civil service and diplomatic corps; but, despairing of seeing such an institution in that city, it advocates the addition of such a department to Harvard. The idea is an excellent one, and should receive more attention from our educators and legislators. If such a department were added to our universities, it would not only insure a better civil service, but it would make the "scholar in politics" a reality instead of a reformer...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - It is at Bloomington, Indiana, not Illinois, that the Civil Service Reform League, composed mostly of professors and students of Indiana University, has offered prizes for essays on the Civil Service, as stated in the CRIMSON of March 6. I ask you to make the correction since the two Bloomingtons are so often confounded, and the Hoosiers desire "honor to whom honor...
Engineering is the "art and science of utilizing the forces and materials of nature." The profession may be divided into military and civil engineering; the latter into mechanical and mining engineering. There is no clearly definite line between these divisions. An engineer must know something of all. The number of engineers has increased of late and will increase as money grows more plenty. An engineer must first have constructive or mechanical powers. He must have a good knowledge of customs and usages of business. He must have some knowledge of law, - as he will have to decide many disputes among...
...Civil Service Reform League of Bloomington, Illinois, lately roused much interest in its cause by offering to the students of Indiana University prizes for the best essays in Civil Service Reform. The action of this reform league seems in many ways calculated to bring about the ends at which it aims. For people are fond of telling us that we, who are now undergraduates, will soon be prominent in American politics and journalism. If it be true that we are soon to play an important part, it is needful that we should play it well; that we should be fully...