Word: civilities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Part 2 of Dr. Snow's "Outline of U. S. History," will contain some statistics, particularly interesting at the present time, on the civil service...
...There were four great universities of ancient times," says Dr. W. T. Harris, "Oxford, Cambridge, Bologna and Paris. From the crusades came the idea of civil law, and the degree of Dr. was bestowed upon graduates of the University of Bologna, while that of Master of Arts was from Paris University after the graduates had completed the study of the seven liberal arts. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was instituted first by Gregory...
...Pendleton civil service bill was again discussed in the Senate yesterday, Messrs. Vest, Barrow, Dawes and others taking part in the debate...
...Snow in his lecture yesterday, speaking of the civil service, declared that, in his opinion, Senator Pendleton's bill struck at the root of the whole civil service abuse. The other bill, fixing the tenure of office at four or six years, he considered as extremely detrimental to the interests of the system...
President Eliot has been re-elected as first vice-president of the Civil Service Reform Club of the Fifth Congressional District...