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...Council is an aid to Civil Service Reform. - (a) By often preventing partisan appointments. - (b) By raising the standard of all appointments...
However, the point in question is not the success of the present method; it is rather one of self respect. If the men will not of themselves institute a reform, college sentiment should demand that the Board of Directors take the matter in hand and, if necessary, adopt strong measures to remedy the evil...
...that is quite all embracing on the points at issue, and yet not so radical as to cause her to fall into any act of injustice either towards her own candidates or the teams and representatives of other colleges. The rules which she proposes to adopt in her athletic reform are in some respects less sweeping than those we have here adopted; in other points they are even more radical. In all they seem to us to be thoroughly fair, and certainly suitable for the successful accomplishment of the end at which all the American colleges should aim - the purification...
...reform in admission requirements is necessary-a reform which shall effect the purposes which the devisers of the present requirements had in mind. In some way subsidiary reading, in connection with the required books, should be encouraged. No doubt the setting of alternative questions as a part of the examination would help intelligent and ambitious, teachers to improve the English work in their schools...
Best general references: Minority Re-port on Woman Suffrage, 50th Congress. 2nd Session Senate Reports, 1. no. 2543 J. J. Ingalls; The Sixteenth Amendment Forum IV. 1-13 (Sept, 1887). An Appeal. against Female Suffrage, in Nineteenth Century XXV, 781-785 (June 1889). Bushnell's Women's Suffrage. the Reform against Nature...