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...Roosevelt was warmly received. He said that he did not feel it necessary to try to enlist the sympathies of Harvard men in civil service reform. Every Harvard man, by instinct and training, believes in decent politics, and civil service reform is but another name for decency in a certain part of politics...
...second is the more ethical advantage of an elevation of public methods and standards. He illustrated the first advantage by reference to the postal system. When we simply wish that letters should be delivered with speed and accuracy, it is obviously absurd to insist that a man should have certain views on tariff or finance. In the second place he pointed out that the offices, given out by political leaders to their henchmen, really formed a vast corruption fund, - that the offices were given to the most prominent henchmen, while the less prominent might receive a percentage of the salary...
...committee similar to the one suggested in this vote has existed in Boston, having only a veto power except in such instances as they may be asked by the city or by private bodies, to undertake voluntarily the task of deciding on the merits of certain locations or designs...
Seminary of Classical Philology. (Public Meeting.) On Certain Features of Greek Sacrifices. Mr. H. E. Burton. Sever...
...condition of affairs is a disgrace to the college, all the worse coming as it does when Harvard has a captain who has generously sacrificed an immense amount of time in his efforts to improve our rowing affairs. There seems to be an to a tendency among a certain class of men to regard the athlete who represents his college very much as though he were a sort of gladiator; he is criticised as freely and blamed as harshly if in his best endeavors he prove unsuccessful. We maintain that in such matters no man who has not at least...