Word: civillized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Engineering Society.The Section of Civil Engineers of the Engineering Society met last night to consider the ways and means of more completely organizing their section. C. J. Tilden '96 was elected chairman. It was decided that a committee of three should lay before the next meeting of the section plans for a new organization. The members of the committee are C. J. Tilden '96, G. F. Palmeter...
THERE will be a meeting of the Civil Engineers this evening at 7 o'clock in Room 1, L. S. S. Important business...
After referring with gratification to the vote of New York by which stringent provisions for civil service reform will be incorporated in the constitution, he told how he had come himself to take up the cause. He emphasized the fact that he had not approached it from the theoretical standpoint of a collegian, but from the practical standpoint of a member of the New York legislature. Several times during his address Mr. Roosevelt insisted earnestly on the practicability of such a reform. "Decent politics are practicable in this country," were his words...
There are, he explained, two main arguments for civil service reform. The first is the material advantage gained by the improvement in the government service; the second is the more ethical advantage of an elevation of public methods and standards. He illustrated the first advantage by reference to the postal system. When we simply wish that letters should be delivered with speed and accuracy, it is obviously absurd to insist that a man should have certain views on tariff or finance. In the second place he pointed out that the offices, given out by political leaders to their henchmen, really...
...Roosevelt told a number of anecdotes. He explained how Senator Gorman had made false statements about the Civil Service Commission, and, when cornered, had simply replied by calling the commission impertinent. He illustrated the way in which public offices will be used for private interest by stating that Breckenridge, in the late contest over his nomination, had nearly secured victory by his office-bribery...