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...first thing needed in civil service reform is a general change of sentiment; more people must become interested in it and it must be more generally sought after by the general mass of the population. It is to promote this feeling that we have met here tonight...
Some people consider it a fad, a mere passing amusement, and not worthy of serious thought, but in this they make a great error. The object of Civil Service Reform is two-fold; in the first place that the country should be served by competent men, men who are in principles and intelligence worthy to represent the United States; secondly, that we should get rid of this bartering of offices, which has corrupted our country so terribly and given a chance to pigs to push their snouts around the trough and get as much as they could...
Western Campaigns of the Civil War, 1861-63. The individual subjects of these lectures...
This notice is reprinted from the announcement in the Calendar because these lectures will probably be the best that have ever been delivered at Harvard upon the Civil War, and are worthy of especial notice...
...public lectures by well-known and able men on subjects of broad interest are coming to take a very important place. Such courses as that of Dr. Fiske, and those given under the auspices of the French Department and the Cercle Francais, of the Memorial Society, of the Civil Service Reform Club, and of other societies, all tend to make the intellectual life here mean more to every member of the University than it has ever done before. Of course these lectures, affording as they do a mental recreation must always be subordinate to the fixed and regular demands...