Word: reformator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Subjects for Third Forensic: 1. Does the possession of a good memory afford any indication of the presence or absence of other mental powers? 2. Is there a need for reform in the civil service of the United States? The first three subjects of Third Senior Forensic may be taken by juniors. Due after mid-year examinations...
...resolutions and reports, et cetera? No, indeed! On the contrary they tamely submit; they leave Memorial in abject fear, and deliver over its fair precincts into the hands of the tyrants? This is the reward of our efforts. After all my letters to the papers calling for justice and reform in such eloquent and powerful language, after all your own laborious reports and editorials and statistics, we see only this result. And again, what have I accomplished in all these years by my efforts to secure steam heating in the dormitories and more lamps in the yard, and other changes...
Upwards of 4000 persons have signed the civil service reform petition to be presented to Congress. The petition will be in circulation this week...
...there a need for reform in the civil service of the United States...
...American colleges could educate young men in the theory of government, could instruct them in finance, political economy, and diplomacy, could fit them in manners and learning to become our worthy representatives abroad, our politics at home would become purer and more dignified, the cry for civil service reform would in a great measure cease, and we should no longer be disgraced abroad, as we have so often been, by men unfit to be our agents. Though Harvard cannot take the initiatory step in this direction, she can at least follow the good example which has been...