Word: reforms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Schools, Brookline, speaking upon this subject, protested against the advanced admission requirements of the college and particularly of Harvard. President Eliot spoke at some length with reference to the amount of time that should be given to secondary education, and the difficulties involved by the present admission requirements. Reform, he said, in our own system, rather than the adoption of the German system is what is needed...
...Jeffrey R. Brackett '83, of Baltimore, spoke briefly on "The College Graduate in Charity," at a conference of the Social Service Committee in Phillips Brooks House last night. He out-lined the growth of state boards of charity, prison reform conferences, and other agencies for social work during the last twenty-five years. There are at present great opportunities in charitable work open to college graduates as members of a special corps of trained workers, as managers of charitable institutions and agencies, and as individual workers with individuals. For men who feel an especial interest in this field of work...
...civil service reformers, he said, is to abolish the boss system in American politics; the improvement of the civil service itself is but a by-product. The boss works through a large army of office-holders and would-be office-holders, and it is through his handling of the patronage that he controls primaries and conventions, and consequently legislation. The so-called examinations for entrance to the civil service are in the main practical tests of fitness for the various positions to be filled. There are over four hundred distinctly different kinds of examinations in the national service. The total...
...Dana '74, spoke last night before the Political Club on "Civil Service Reform...
Before the election there will be presented to the class a set of rules to govern the election of officers throughout the four years. A reform seems necessary and the proposal below is the result of a wide discussion and investigation of the general opinion on the subject. This set is modelled on the suggestion made in the CRIMSON last Friday, with a few modifications which have been generally desired. The purpose of bringing this subject up is to enable the class of 1906 to adopt a good reform and hand it down as a custom to future classes...