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...life, which it was almost impossible to extract. When in 1861 Alexander II proclaimed the abolition of servitude the whole country rose to show its fitness for freedom. The emancipated peasants received land, thus acquiring not only the right but the power of being free. Seldom has a reform exerted so destructive an influence on that which it supercedes...
...next lecture will be devoted to the consideration of this reform, its moral significance, and its intellectual influence, in so far as they expressed themselves in the writings of Tourgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Leo Tolstoy...
Last night at the Colonial Club Professor Taussig gave a smoke talk to the Civil Service Reform Club on "Civil Service Reform and its Aspects to some Social Questions...
...permanency in office. Such departments as the post office and telegraph must have trained men in their service, and the efficiency of these men would be impaired by changing them every four years. Consequently, when more such departments are embraced in the public service, the scope of civil service reform is enlarged...
Harvard Civil Service Reform Club. Smoke Talk. Civil Service Reform in its Relations to some Social Problems. Professor Taussig. Colonial Club House...