Word: civill
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lalor's Cyclopaedia, I, 466; Bryce, American Commonwealth (1st ed.), I, 615, 625; Fiske, Civil Government, 133; A. P. Wilder, Municipal Problem (with references); General References in English 6, Briefs in the CRIMSON for Dec. 2, 1890, and Nov. 17, 1891; Bibliography of Municipal Government in the proceedings of the National Conference for Good City Government, 1894. (Note especially the status of Philadelphia in Allinson and Penrase's Philadelphia, (Johns Hopkins Studies, Extra Volume III) and Bryce, American Commonwealth (3d ed.), II, ch 89); F. H. Hodder, Brief Bibliography of Municipal Government...
...Civil Service Reform Club held its second smoke talk last evening at the Colonial Club. Professor Hart was the speaker and gave a very interesting talk on civil service in the United States, taking the point of view of the spoilsman and discussing the arguments which the latter advances for his belief in the distribution of offices among party followers as a reward for service...
...great leaders, no one could be found who surpassed General Sherman. His letters to his mother, which extend over the remarkable period of half a century, were the word of a great man telling of great things. From them we might get most truthful and vivid pictures of the Civil...
...Mechanical Engineers, will give an address before the Engineering Society on "The Choice of a Profession." This lecture will be of special value to men in the Engineering Department. Mr. Coxe is a man of large experience, both theoretical and practical, being familiar with the details of mining and civil engineering as well as of mechanical engineering. In the latter profession he stands as one of the foremost engineers...
...Civil Service Reform Club.Mr. Arthur Lord '72 gave a most interesting address yesterday evening under the auspices of the Civil Service Reform Club. He spoke of the excellent effect of civil service reform principles as opposed to the spoils system, and gave illustrations of the working of the civil service law which was passed in Massachusetts in 1884. The expenses of the civil service commission for which this law provides were, he said, more than repaid by the saving it brings about in state and municipal administration...