Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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ENGLISH 6, December 2, 1880, at 2 P. M., in Sever 5. Debate on the following question : "Resolved, That the civil service of the United States should be reformed by requiring every candidate for appointment to pass a satisfactory examination, and by making the tenure of office during good behavior." Disputants, affirmative, Messrs. DeWindt, MacVeagh, Hadley; negative, Messrs. Jackson, Dazey, Adams...
ENGLISH 6. November 4, at 2 P. M., in Sever 5. Debate on the following question : Resolved, That the continued existence of the Republican party is unfavorable to the establishment of order and civil freedom in the Southern States. Affirmative, Messrs. Adams, Godkin, and Dazey; Negative, Messrs. Coolidge, DeWindt, and Jackson...
NUMEROUS cases of brain-fog and actual insanity from over study have recently occurred in England. Ten per cent of the young men who passed the competitive Civil Service Examination for Indian service showed, when they afterwards applied for health-certificates, that they had been affected injuriously by the strain of the examination...
...Yale Index, edited by Mr. S. H. Bogg, '69, shows that out of the 719 graduates named, 295 have become lawyers, 108 ministers, 103 merchants, 40 farmers, 88 teachers, 38 physicians, 25 journalists, and 12 have entered the civil service...
...GOOD deal of trouble has been given lately to the Secretaries of numerous College associations, by the apparently malicious removal of notices of meetings; &c., from the trees in the neighborhood of the Yard. But some one saw a member of that extremely able, civil, and energetic body, the Cambridge police force, taking down one of the H. A. A.'s posters from a tree on Main Street, and inquiries at the police headquarters revealed an old city ordinance, recently ordered to be enforced, which reads as follows...