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...Civil Engineering section of the Engineering Society met last evening in Grays 46. Papers were read by Mr. C. J. Tilden, L. S. '96, on Maps of the Government Survey, and by Mr. M. H. Wright '97, on Irrigation in the Crow Reservation. It was voted to hold a dinner at the end of the year, and a committee was appointed to make all arrangements...
After sketching President Sparks's term of office which began in 1849 and noting his opposition to the elective system, President Eliot concluded by contrasting the quiet state of the University during the fifties with the period of distraction and turmoil which followed during the Civil War. He referred...
Tonight the first lecture on Harvard's history will be held under the auspices of the Harvard Memorial Society. Certainly no better man could have been chosen to tell the history of the University during the decade just preceding the Civil War than President Eliot. In 1850 President Eliot was a sophomore in the College, and his father held the position of Treasurer to the University. The year after leaving College he was appointed tutor in mathematics, and in 1858 became an assistant professor of mathematics and chemistry. From this it will be seen that President Eliot was closely connected...
Nothing has more encouraged the friends of good government at the present time than the great interest aroused in young men for civil service reform. No greater service can be rendered in the army or the navy than in civil life, in fighting against the predominat evils of the time. Our resources have been so great hitherto that not even bad legislation or incompetent officials could retard our steady progress. We have not felt that there might be dangers in fostering class interests. But now other nations are coming to the front, and we must work hard to keep pace...
...William G. Rice followed, with an outline of the practical outcome of the work of the commission. He first showed that the evils which civil service reform aimed to eradicate were no new thing, but the logical outcome of the world's progress. Thirteen years ago the first law was passed in relation to the reform movement. It sought to remove the higher offices from the control of the party spoilsmen. Since that time the idea has by degrees obtained a firmer footing, until today we have 55,000 positions open to men by competition. The speaker traced the reform...