Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Taussig said by way of introduction that there were two objects in the reform of the civil service-a positive one in securing the men best fitted for the service, and a negative one in eliminating the spoils idea from the service and thus helping to purify public life. Whatever may be said of the results in regard to the first object, it is pretty certain that the reform does away with appointment for political reasons. But there arises another difficulty in the way of purification of public life. It is in the blackmailing of corporations by those...
...second plan is to have flowers thrown from a platform concealed in the old tree. The objections that have been offered are: (1) "We are not a female seminary;" (2) the whole idea is strained and unnatural; (3) "it is the reverse of scrabbling pennies for muckers...
...music for the songs in the play has been composed by L. Thompson '92. The idea of giving "Alice in Wonderland" as a classic is Mr. Hooker Abbott's, and he is in charge of the performances. The acting manager is Gilbert, who for a year or two has trained the performers in the Hasty Pudding Club theatricals...
Here a plan is in force more in keeping with the Harvard idea of letting, as far as possible, each man be the controller and judge of his own action-the idea which gave rise to the elective system and brought about the abolishment of compulsory chapel. It is recognized that the mere grinding at books does not constitute an education, and that a student may have outside pursuits very desirable and necessary to the development of a broad and liberal mind. He may, as many Harvard men do, have to work to pay his way through College...
...vote of the Board and the pledge of the undergraduates together show the relation between the students and the Faculty as it should be-each considering the feelings and interests of the other and both working together in confidence and harmony for the common welfare. The old idea that students and Faculty were natural enemies has long since disappeared; and in its place has been developed the more rational idea of mutual dependence and helpfulness. The sooner the division line between the two bodies entirely disappears and they become one united body working for a common end the better...