Word: reformed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Recognizing the evils of the spoils system, the Republican party and the president are fully pledged to reform the civil service:- Republican platform; Harrison's letter of acceptance, Advertiser, September 12, 1888, and inaugural address; Civil Service Record for March...
...institutions. This must be the task of active, educated men, "of vigorously independent minds," for an "enlightened public opinion alone can master the great race and economic problems" before us. The writer then goes on to show the great influence of public opinion in pushing measures of reform. He claims, contrary to Mr. Darling, that the best citizen should not feel "that it is his highest duty to save his party from the reproaches cast upon it by its opponents;'" for "a citizen's highest duty must be to his country," not to his party...
DEAR SIRS.- Since at present the officers of this college are agitating the question of reform, I have thought that this communication may not be out of place. I wish to point out what seems to be a defect in oral examinations in this college. That examinations of this kind are here very rare must be admitted, but even so all cause for complaint either on the part of the professor or the student should be avoided so far as it is possible...
...make this suggestion that among these questions of reform I might point out one at least in which the student need not be treated as the "forgotten...
Best general references: Jevons "The Railways and the State," in "Methods of Social Reform," pp. 353-383; article on "Transportation" in Lalor's Cyclopedia...