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There are eight notable evils of city government in this country today. First is an evil not peculiar to the city, but having a deeper effect there than elsewhere--the spoils system. In cities even the laborers and mechanics are employed in return for their vote. By padding the city payrolls additional places are found for friends of the administration. Competency is immaterial in appointments under the spoils system, so that there is an utter absence of it in the administration of the city departments. There is no discipline, because each member of a force owes his appointment to someone...
This plan was laid before the Carnegie Foundation last summer by the German Minister of Instruction. It is similar to an exchange system which is now in effect between Prussia on the one side and France and England on the other and which has proved of great value to the school systems of those countries...
...appreciate the fact which has of late been a matter of concern to the Faculty that the standard of scholarship in the University has not improved in recent years, and we are in entire sympathy with any measures that will have the effect of permanently bettering the standard of scholarship. We also realize that in intercollegiate athletics as conducted at present there are certain elements detrimental to scholastic interests. The most important of these is the feeling among the undergraduates that athletics take precedence over studies; which manifests itself in cutting lectures on the days of important contests...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "The Variation of the "Thermo-magnetic Effect in Soft Iron, with Strength of the Magnetic Field and with the Temperature Gradient." Mr. L. L. Campbell. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...from an entirely academic position and with but little assumed foundation upon which to act in this capacity of regulator of athletic sports. He has since become one of the most interested and valuable members, and to feel that pressure of other work was to such a degree in effect as to render him unable longer to serve the University in this way is to be doubly regretted. We feel certain that in expressing sincere gratitude for the time and care spent by Dean Sabine while a member of the Committee we shall be voicing the sentiments of the entire...