Word: honorum
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...many at Brookline High, Harvard was the next rung on the striver's cursus honorum. Joe Kennedy, the President's father, who had moved to Brookline to launch his banking career, went to Harvard for its social benefits, and sent his sons there for the same reason. Academic matters were secondary. The social benefits of Harvard were a reason for Michael Dukakis not to go there. He believes deeply in meritocratic distinctions, which are blurred (if not reversed) by social influence. He went, instead, to the Quaker school Swarthmore, where his love for discipline would be rewarded. The school also...
...natural ability is to be ranked over experience, some efficient system of in-service training must be devised. Systems of public service apprenticeship used in other countries, and remarkably reminiscent of the Roman "cursus honorum," are discussed, criticized, and evaluated...
...States to have no political turnover in federal jobs every four years. Prominent educators in this country have often publicly lamented the need for a comprehensive civil service, similar to that of England. This bill, if passed, will set up an institution that will rival the traditional British "Cursus Honorum", Eton and Oxford, since it will create a class of public servants, as independent and as distinct as our present Army and Navy...
...aviators, on the other hand, have progressed by rhythmic steps to perfection. First three men, then two men, then one man, flew across the Atlantic, and Miss Earhart capitulated to the obvious with a solo excursion. Evidently the same gradus honorum will be observed in world flights. But there is an important difference. Mr. Brody relinquished the front pages on his third attempt, and even the barrelleers were only good for five. When naivete has followed in the exodus of the earlier colonial virtues, possibly witless aeroplane maneouvers will join their predecessors in silence, and the native yen for high...
This anomaly, however, is easily explained by considering certain subsidiary features of the two political systems. In the United States, for example, the political curses honorum might be likened to a tall laddor which the politician, starting ordinarily at the bottom ascends rung by rung. The climb is long, laborious, and slow. The educated American, ever impatient of results, is not temperamentally equipped for the task, and easily deviates into fields where his ability will reap him a more speedy and direct compensation. On the other hand, the political apprenticeship of the Englishman is of short duration. He serves first...
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