Word: civilizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Civil Service Reform Club is to be organized at Cornell...
...question of civil service reform in our national politics is certainly one of the leading topics of the day. At Harvard, as well as at other colleges, there are undoubtedly many whose interest in the subject is sincere and earnest, and who are very willing to aid the cause in any way in their power. At one college, we understand, there is already a civil service reform among the students, and at Princeton the project of forming one is now being agitated. There would seem to be no reason why this movement should not spread throughout all the colleges...
...World is pleased to state that Mr. Carl Schurz is to enlighten the callow youth of Harvard as to the relation between railroad lobbies and civil service reform. The description of the scholarly members of the Phi Beta Kappa (including so many of the professors and graduates of the university) as "callow youth," is as impudent as it is amusing...
Prof. Goldwin Smith will shortly receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from Oxford University...
...Advertiser, speaking of the recently published prize essays of the Civil Service Reform Association of Boston, says of the late Mr. W. A. Smith of the class of '80: "That of Mr. Walter Allen Smith, which took the first prize, is a paper which will intensify greatly the sorrow and regret at his early death; for a young man who could prepare so broad, so thoughtful and so ripe an essay, expressed in such an easy and happy style, was capable of great things, and his death is a loss to his State and his country...