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...United States Civil Service Commission will hold open competitive examinations to fill the positions of assistants in bacteriology and roentgenology in the Public Health Service and in the veterans' bureaus at Boston. Chelsea, Rutland, Vineyard Haven, Portland, Me.; Providence, R. I.; and New Haven, Conn. . The salaries range from $70 to $200 a month. Applications for examination will close on July...
...This is the 110th anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate the day. Washington--the mightlest name on earth--long since mightlest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or brightness to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on". STOCKTON KIMBALL...
January 23, "The Roman Republic and the Civil War"; January 25. "The Restoration of Conquests and the Early Roman Empire"; January 30. "The Enlightened Monarchy of the Second Century, A. D.;" February 1, "The Cities, Industry and Commerce"; February 6, "The Country, Agriculture and Landholding"; February 8, "The Crisis of the Third Century, A. D."; February 13. "The Restoration of Diocletian and the Reforms of Constantine. The Beginnings of the Byzantium Slave State": and February 15, "The Question of the Decline of Ancient Civilization...
...close of the century the proportion of Harvard graduates going into teaching increased very much. The report of the Bureau of Education shows on the other hand that the percentage of graduates entering the bar had, with some notable fluctuations, on the whole declined since the Civil War. The statistics of the Law School tell the same tale. For a score of years from 1872 the men from Harvard College formed more than half the college graduates in the School, and until 1910 they furnished more than one-third, whereas in 1921-22 they were less than one-fifth...
...cohorts of Law and Order, in their stiff-collared sobriety, received a severe shaking-up when they heard that a newly-elected Senator had been caught smoking in the Senate chamber. What sacrilege! to besmirch the sanctity of the room where Thomas Barton lived his dying years, where the Civil, Spanish, and Great Wars were conducted, where Webster, Clay, Sumner, and other great men of the past gathered in solemn conclave; where, indeed as Dickens once described, one could see "so many honorable members with swelled faces.... caused by the quantity of tobacco they contrive to stow within the hollow...