Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opening, Mr. Bonaparte pointed out that the task of civil service reform is the same as it has been for the last thirty years. The same evils are to be fought whether they are found under the name of Republican or Democrat. The particular danger is the same as it has been, that of patronage in its influence on legislation...
...then to seek the means to gain it, is illogical. To get good legislation, we first need to get good public men. To do that civil service is needed. In, say, a question of tariff legislation, keen strife between groups of producers is inevitable. If we commit such a task to men who peddle votes for places or a President who peddles places for votes, poor results are a foregone conclusion. So it is in all forms of legislation. The first thing needed is to reform the character of the men. To talk about attending first to the tariff...
...people had to have centralized leadership to compete with the centralized power of the King. It was a work of reform rather than of creation. In America we have had no struggle against ruler or class. Our problem has been chiefly the up building of a nation, a task which demands slow and sure steps...
...give some hints and clews to books which are illustrative, whether as the results or the occasion, of altered standards of criticism and aesthetic principles. The author expresses his attitude toward literary criticism as follows: "No one can be more keenly aware than I how parlous a task it is to attempt systematic criticism of the present or near past in literature; but if we are to wait until the world has made up its mind about what it is reading today, it will then be reading something else, and our criticism will always lag superfluous in the development...
...attention has been paid to two things: First, getting the oars into the water immediately at the full reach, and, second, slowing the slide while going out on the recover. The first is a fault which has been common to all Harvard crews of late. It is a hard task to overcome a tendency which has become so firmly rooted, but the men are making every effort, and Coach Mumford is helping them as best he can. The second fault, that of rushing the slides, is an easier one to overcome, and has been nearly mastered since leaving Cambridge...