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...United States Civil Service Commission announces Technical and Scientific Examinations to be held in Boston on April 21, and also examinations for the following positions, some of them to be held as early as March 10: (1) Electrical Engineer; (2) Hydrographic Aid; (3) Attendant and Skilled Photographer, U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y.; (4) Aid in the Science of Mollusks, National Museum, Washington, D. C.; (5) Interpreter in Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, French, and Italian. Further information may be obtained at the office of the Appointment Committee, University...
...civil service reformers, he said, is to abolish the boss system in American politics; the improvement of the civil service itself is but a by-product. The boss works through a large army of office-holders and would-be office-holders, and it is through his handling of the patronage that he controls primaries and conventions, and consequently legislation. The so-called examinations for entrance to the civil service are in the main practical tests of fitness for the various positions to be filled. There are over four hundred distinctly different kinds of examinations in the national service. The total...
...Dana '74, spoke last night before the Political Club on "Civil Service Reform...
...United States Civil Service Commission announces that on March 10-11, an examination will be held for the position of clerk qualified in mechanical and topographical drafting. Competitors must be twenty years of age or over Persons who desire to compete should apply at once. Further information may be obtained at the office of the Appointment Committee, University...
Hampton Institute was founded by General S. C. Armstrong shortly after the Civil War for the purpose of providing a means of education for the negroes and Indians of the South and Middle West. Its graduates now number about eleven hundred men and women, one of the most noted of whom is Mr. Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee School at Tuskegee, Alabama...