Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From the advance sheets of Secretary Gilman's annual report of the Society for the Collegiate Education of Women, we are able to give a summary of the work of the society last year. There were 115 students distributed into fifty five classes; and directed by forty-one professors and instructors of Harvard college. During the ten years there has been a steady growth in the work, as shown by the increase in the number of students. In 1879-80 there were twenty-five students; the tuition fees amounted to $3. 725.00, and the instructors received $5, 171.00. Last year...
...Harvard Electrical club met last evening at their newly furnished rooms in the Lawrence scientific school, to listen to a paper by Mr. Perot on "Electric Lights." The regular business meeting of the club was attended to for about an hour. Mr. Lawton was chosen temporary chairman and reported the resignation of both the vice presidents. Nominations for vice presidents resulted in the names of Messrs. Wilkinson, Chittenden. Greenleaf, Bailey, Johnson and Lewis, from whom Chittenden and Lewis were elected. After the minutes of the last meeting had been read and accepted there was a report of several committees...
...marked improvement in the department has been effected by the Act-Report of U. S. C. S. Commission 1886-87, p. p. 121-137, 498-540. (a) Effect of competitive examinations on the service-No. Am. 109, p. 443. (b) Effect on morals and politics...
Best general reference: Fifth annual report of Civil Service commission...
...should not apply to civil officers (a) Confidential clerks should be chosen by those whom they serve. (b) Skilled artisans should be chosen not for knowledge but for efficiency in their art-recognized in Civil Service Report...