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...announced by the U. S. Civil Service Commission, with particular reference to college students and graduates, that there is a greater demand for fourth assistant examiners in the Patent Office than they can fill. The position is a very desirable one, and the salary is $1200 per annum; it can be filled, however, only by those who have had an advanced education in the sciences. The subjects for examination are: Physics, technics, mathematics, chemistry and mechanical drawing. The U. S. Civil Service Commission, at Washington, will furnish all desired information...
...directed his remarks chiefly to the young men and the wavering members of the opposition, and urged them to testify their gratitude to President Cleveland for his firmness in the national calamity, the greatest which threatened the country since the civil war. He commenced his address by quoting a prophesy which James Russell Lowell delivered a few years ago in Sanders Theatre, in which he likened President Cleveland to Seneca's pilot; and called the attention of his audience to the fulfillment of this prophesy, as shown by the firmness with which President Cleveland has guided the rudder of national...
...from Osgood in which he swears that he never received compensation for participating in athletics at either Cornell or Pennsylvania; that he entered the University of Pennsylvania in the scientific department of the college, being persuaded that upon graduation he would have more advantageous opportunities for his life calling-civil engineering-in this city; that he received no pecuniary inducement to enter the University of Pennsylvania and has been promised none. He also swears that he has passed examinations for a full year's work, ending last June...
...school are much more marked this year than ever before. Most important is the fact that the use of the Cambridge Manual Training School workshop has been secured. The result of this is to bring about the complete remodelling and bettering of the mechanical engineering course. The courses in civil engineering have also been extended. They will be under the charge of Professor Hollis, as well as the courses in engineering, mechanics, and strength of materials. The old Pudding building is also being fitted up for use by the Scientific School...
...true remedy for the existing evil of bad nominations is not an abandonment of the caucus system, but in reform. - (a) Civil service reform. - (1) The overthrow of the spoils system will remove the chief incentive to machine management of caucuses: R. H. Dana, Forum. II. 496. - (b) Introduction of state regulation of caucuses: Penn. Monthly, vol. 12, p. 184; Mass. Acts of 1888, chap. 441, Acts of 1889, chap. 413, sec. 3; Acts of 1892, chap. 416. - (c) Education of the voter: Hon. Adin Thayer's speech, Boston Herald...