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...Friday, November ninth, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt will speak in Sanders Theatre under the auspices of the Harvard Civil Service Reform Club. The subject of his lecture will be "The Merit-System and Manliness in Politics." This is undoubtedly a most valuable chance for the students of the University, as Mr. Roosevelt is one of the two or three great leaders of the civil service reform movement. The theatre on that evening will be open to the public, but the floor and first balcony will be reserved for the holders of complimentary admission tickets until ten minutes of eight. The lecture...
...receive new members and issue shingles at the same time and place. The club holds two or more public meetings each year, like the present one, besides other smaller and more informal meetings. It also subscribes for each member to Good Government, the national organ of the. civil service reform movement, collects all the available literature on civil service reform in a reserved alcove in the reading room and does much in other ways to promote the reform. All members of the University are eligible for membership. The annual dues are one dollar. Any other information will be cheerfully furnished...
...Fair trials in foreign countries have shown its practicability: Lalor III, 502. - (1) Experience of Belgium and Germany: Wm. Larrabee, The Railroad Question, p. 409. - (2) No fair trial in France and Italy: Quar. Jour. Econ., I, 453 (July 1887). - (c) Extension of service would bring about civil service reform...
...JAMES and V. H. MAY.Best general references: Hadley's Railroad Transportation; The Railroad and the State in Methods of Social Reform; Compendium of Transportation Theories; Hudson's Railways and the Republic; Kirkwood, Railway Rates and Government Control; Acworth, Railways and the Traders...
...analogy can be drawn from successful government management of Post Office and Telegraph. - (a) Routine management. - (b) Small fixed capital: Hadley, pp. 254, 255; Jevons Methods of Social Reform...