Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...executive meeting of the Civil Service Reform Club held last evening, it was voted to send two delegates to the annual meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League, to be held at Washington on Dec. 12 and 13. The men chosen to represent the club were A. S. Ingalls '96 and J. P. Welsh...
...first thing needed in civil service reform is a general change of sentiment; more people must become interested in it and it must be more generally sought after by the general mass of the population. It is to promote this feeling that we have met here tonight...
Some people consider it a fad, a mere passing amusement, and not worthy of serious thought, but in this they make a great error. The object of Civil Service Reform is two-fold; in the first place that the country should be served by competent men, men who are in principles and intelligence worthy to represent the United States; secondly, that we should get rid of this bartering of offices, which has corrupted our country so terribly and given a chance to pigs to push their snouts around the trough and get as much as they could...
...Herron is an apostle of social reform from the standpoint of Christian Idealism. The church, the state, man, human relations are Christian only as they embody a sacrificial quality of life. The whole social order is measured and tested from the standpoint of sacrifice. In the application of this doctrine, Dr. Herron is logical and unflinching. His results, are, in certain cases, extreme, and to some, his conclusions seem even to be unsafe. But the directness of his teaching, his earnestness, his insight and his eloquence give him a large hearing wherever he speaks. He has travelled all through...
...lectures by well-known and able men on subjects of broad interest are coming to take a very important place. Such courses as that of Dr. Fiske, and those given under the auspices of the French Department and the Cercle Francais, of the Memorial Society, of the Civil Service Reform Club, and of other societies, all tend to make the intellectual life here mean more to every member of the University than it has ever done before. Of course these lectures, affording as they do a mental recreation must always be subordinate to the fixed and regular demands of college...