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Will you kindly extend to me, as a former editor of the CRIMSON, the courtesy of your columns for the inclusion of the following comment with regard to the editorial entitled "Consular Service" which appeared in your issue of October...
...state therein that more college men would enter the diplomatic and consular services were not those branches of the public service largely given over to the spoils system. In view of the fact that an organization has recently been instituted at Harvard with the object of interesting men in this subject, an innovation which deserves the warmest support, it would seem important that the present status of the diplomatic and consular services under the Government of the United States be clearly explained for the benefit of those members of the University who may consider eventually entering them...
...application of civil service provisions was extended to the consular services by the Executive Order of June 27, 1906. This means that entrance to the service is dependent upon examination and that transfer and promotion are regulated solely by the merit system and by seniority. For from being subject to the spoils system, the consular service has been rigorously governed by this Executive Order throughout the last two presidential administrations, and it has been intimated by the present administration and already indicated by such transfers and promotions as have occurred since March 4, 1913, that civil service principles with regard...
...unfortunately true that the positions of ambassador and minister are still regarded as excepted from these civil service principles but it must be remembered that the great progress already made in the permanency of both the diplomatic and consular services has been effected within the last few years, after over a century of the spoils system, and that perfection cannot be expected overnight. Taking into consideration the present sentiment of the country in regard to the entire question, there seems to be every indication that the offices of ambassador and minister will eventually be in part if not largely filled...
...help in correcting the impression which so many have had of the Diplomatic and Consular Services, we should like to add, regarding the latter, that the popular idea that it can be entered only examination is false. A college graduate can go directly not the clerical staff of the Service without preliminary examinations and loan work from there to the official staff. The Government, moreover, is very desirous of getting more college men into this department, which makes it even worth while for those who have ever considered its possibilities to learn, its details by inquiry at the Employment Office...