Word: retainers
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Professor Lowell compared the methods of filling higher offices in this country and in England and said in part: Places of importance cannot always be filled by competitive examinations and it is in filling these positions that England far surpasses us. There experts are selected who retain their positions permanently irrespective of party. Wherever the position requires the formulating of a policy, there is a lay politician but all the real work is done by the expert. In this country experts are employed only on the Bench and in the army and navy, and this is why our higher political...
...Memorial Hall next year, must renew their membership by signing on the book in the Auditor's office before the end of the year. Names not so renewed will be dropped from the membership list. Merely signing on a blank for a club-table next year will not retain membership in the association. The book is now ready for signatures...
...present position. If the case is finally determined in favor of the commissioners they will of course have to pay for the land at its full valuation of $89,000; but this result will be far from satisfactory to the College as there are strong reasons for wishing to retain the property. The case is one of four or five in which the College is interested, and nearly all of them are disputes in regard to land...
...Sophomore-Freshman debate the question will be: "Resolved that the United States should retain the Philippine Islands." The Sophomores will support the affirmative. The Sophomore speakers will be J. H. Holmes, E. H. Letchworth and E. Bernbaum; the Freshman speakers, G. Bettman, H. Mann and H. A. Rich. The judges will be Judge Hammond of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, Mr. F. W. Dallinger '83, and Mr. I. L. Winter. R. C. Bruce '02 has coached the 1902 team, and H. B. Kirtland '01 has coached...
...account of this new position, Professor Burke will be obliged to give up some of his engineering courses. He will, however, retain the courses in Metallurgy and in Heating and Ventilation, and he will continue the supervision of shop-work...