Word: experts
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Professor Lowell compared the methods of filling higher offices in this country and in England and said in part: Places of importance cannot always be filled by competitive examinations and it is in filling these positions that England far surpasses us. There experts are selected who retain their positions permanently irrespective of party. Wherever the position requires the formulating of a policy, there is a lay politician but all the real work is done by the expert. In this country experts are employed only on the Bench and in the army and navy, and this is why our higher political...
...match, there is a system of rewarding good scores by "qualification pins" in somewhat the same manner as the marksman badges in the militia. A "second class" pin is given for three scores of 20 out of 25 or "first class" for two scores of 15 straight and an "expert" pin for 25 straight. These pins are made in the shape of clay birds and are marked with the initials of the club...
...current number of the Lampoon is one of the best that has appeared this year. Its most striking feature is the great improvement in the illustrations, some of which are extremely well executed. The only long article is "Around Cambridge with the Expert Guy," which describes rather cleverly certain amusing features of College life. The seven faculty valentines are also, with possibly one exception, extremely good hits. Other features of the number are the "By the Way" and the editorial on "Valentines...
...club has arranged the following new system of qualifications. If a man records three scores of twenty out of twenty-five he is put into class 2; if he makes two fifteen straights he comes into class 1; and if he makes twenty-five straight he is classed as expert...