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...Jones '96, who was chosen a delegate to represent the Harvard Civil Service Reform Club at the convention held in Chicago to organize a national league of college civil service reform clubs, returned from Chicago last evening...
...convention was held May 3. Delegates were present from Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Lincoln, Wisconsin and Harvard Universities, and Shurtleff College. Mr. William Dudley Foulke, president of the Indiana Civil Service Reform League, was also present...
...Hirschfield, of Ohio, the third Princeton speaker, said: "This claim of socialistic tendencies for the income tax has been brought against every measure of reform which has been passed. It was brought against the new factory laws; it was brought against compulsory education and against improvement laws for the working classes. The claim that this tax is sectional is one that might be brought against the internal revenue measures which my opponents advocate on beer and whisky...
...first of these is that the play was intended to be a travesty on the Sicilian expedition. This explanation is not likely because the mood of the Athenians on Sicilian affairs was anything but humorous. The second view is that "The Birds" was written to bring about a great reform; but Aristophanes has given no proof that this was his intention. The third view is that the play is purely a fanciful creation, which is really the case...
...meeting of the Civil Service Reform Club last night it was voted to send a delegate to the convention to be held in Chicago May 3 for the purpose of forming a national league of civil service reform clubs...