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...this concentration system is used in connection with one industry, as for instance, cotton goods manufacture, the greatest percentage of laborers is found to be employed on the lowest class of labor. When applied to all industries the concentration system shows the weight of numbers to be on a higher grade of labor. This form of table is now used in the United States, in Federal and State census; and also in England and various continental countries. It does not eliminate the use of the "average" which many statisticians distrust; but the average becomes valuable when used over a term...
...Harvard Graduate Club, which held its first meeting for this year in Brooks House last week, was founded in 1889. The primary purpose of the club is the promotion of social intercourse among graduate students at Harvard, but it also aims to be of assistance to the cause of higher education, by calling attention, at various times, to questions of especial interest to advanced students. Membership in the Club is open to any student in the Graduate School, to any student in one of the professional schools who has received an A B., and to any officer of the Graduate...
...second number of the Lampoon which appears tonight makes a new departure for the paper which at once lifts it upon a higher place than it has held heretofore. The improvement in appearance is very marked. The type is far more attractive and the paper is much better adapted to illustrating...
...meeting of the Civil Service Reform Club last night the members were addressed by Mr. R. H. Dana '74 on the subject "Civil Service versus the Political Boss," and by Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell on "Civil Service in its Higher Branches...
Professor Lowell compared the methods of filling higher offices in this country and in England and said in part: Places of importance cannot always be filled by competitive examinations and it is in filling these positions that England far surpasses us. There experts are selected who retain their positions permanently irrespective of party. Wherever the position requires the formulating of a policy, there is a lay politician but all the real work is done by the expert. In this country experts are employed only on the Bench and in the army and navy, and this is why our higher political...