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...civil service reformers, he said, is to abolish the boss system in American politics; the improvement of the civil service itself is but a by-product. The boss works through a large army of office-holders and would-be office-holders, and it is through his handling of the patronage that he controls primaries and conventions, and consequently legislation. The so-called examinations for entrance to the civil service are in the main practical tests of fitness for the various positions to be filled. There are over four hundred distinctly different kinds of examinations in the national service. The total...
...Beginnings of Poetry," by Francis B. Gummere '75, is a careful and rather extensive study of the use of poetry as a social institution; it has for its aim, to quote from the opening chapter, "the recording, the classifying and the comparing of the poetic product at large." This involves an analysis of poetry with the view of determining its essential characteristic, which, the author decides, is rhythm. As will be seen, the strictness of the above conclusion bars out all so-called "poetic prose," such as the nobler passages in the Old Testament of the Bible. Indeed this result...
Literature rests on the love of a good book. A book is the product of the age and hour in which it is brought forth, and it reflects the passions and the feelings of the crowd. To study changing literary tastes is to approach human life in all its aspects. It takes no knowledge of philosophy to do this, because observation is all that is necessary. Literary fashions are affected by the climate, the religion and the politics of the land. Just as the fashions of a country are sometimes curious, sometimes amusing, so are the literary tastes of that...
...traits and tendencies. "With the kindergarten at one end of our education and with the elective system at the other we see, or seem to see a falling off in the vigor with which men attack distasteful but useful things,--a shrinking from the old resolute education." "The new product, the educated man of today, is in some measure the necessity of the time. The demands of a special calling require preparation so early and so long that the all-round man--that invaluable species which has leavened and civilized all society--bids fair to be soon as extinct...
...directors of the central company have the power. In all previous forms of the Trust, competition between the individual companies has been stopped. But the last named form of trust does not combine competition companies. The Federal Steel Company, for instance, bought up mines, manufactories dealing with the product in its various stages of refinement, and steamship and transportation companies. Such a system simply insures to the corporation a constant supply of raw material and a market for the finished product, but does not remove the healthful element of competition...