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Believing that a resume of the number of Harvard men (graduates or former students) employed in important positions as public servants would be of general interest, the CRIMSON has compiled statistics dealing with this subject, which are given below. The phases of work investigated are: the Supreme Court, Congress, the Cabinet, the State Executives, and the consular and diplomatic service. The figures were taken from various sources, the main ones being the "World's Almanac" and the "Harvard University Directory...
...Supreme Court, we find a Harvard graduate, Oliver Wendell Holmes '61. He was appointed in 1902. In the 61st Congress there are thirteen Harvard men: three of these are in the Senate. They are H. C. Lodge '71 of Massachusetts, J. Bourne ex-'77 of Oregon, and B. Penrose '81 of Pennsylvania. Of these, Mr. Lodge is perhaps the best known; he has served in the Senate since 1893 and has been on many important committees. Of the ten Harvard men in the House, the oldest is A. Douglas '74, and the most recent one is A. J. Peters...
...part of the world. According to the "Harvard University Directory," 815 Harvard men are employed by the government; we have mentioned only about 100 men; the rest are employed in other branches of work, as follows: government civil service 412, judiciary 159, military 138, legislative (not including members of Congress...
...secretary, Mr. Meyer's chief aim has been to establish the Navy Department on an efficient business basis. Given permission by Congress to institute his reforms, he has thrown aside the bureaucracy caused by the tremendous improvements in the vessels of war, and has made the navy the most effective fighting machine we have ever possessed...
...Green '64, president of the association and Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, Library of Congress, Washington, acted as toastmaster and also spoke on engineering in general. The Harvard scientific school, he said, was one of the first two or three technical schools to be founded after West Point. In those days preparation for the profession of engineering consisted of a little mathematics, physics, drawing and surveying. Now the world is dependent on engineering, and one science is the basis of the profession. Physics is employed in all branches...