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...obstructive individuals have to suffer. In this sort of civic courage our race has led history; and why it should be so lacking here I do not know. Perhaps my vision of the facts is distorted. But it seems to me that, if it is not, this is the reform in "college opinion" which we most deeply need. If individuals cannot be sent to Coventry, no matter what they do, how can we ever get the tone of honor here which we might get-a tone in many respects much higher than that of the outer world...
...would not improve the civil service.- N. A. Rev., Dec., 1887, 4; Lambert, Progress of Civil Service Reform, 7-24.- Civil Service Record...
...party of true civil service reform, and opposed to the Democratic principle of "reform without works." References: Senator Hale's speech of Jan. 11 1888, in Boston Herald of Jan. 12, and in Congressional Record...
...would compel the retention of an unwise system of taxation.- Harper's Mag., Jan., 1888, 272; N. A. Rev. 143: 398; Cleveland's Message, Boston Herald, Dec. 7; Blaine's Criticism, Herald, Dec. 8; Sherman's Speech, Herald, Jan. 5; Tariff Reform Speeches, Herald, Dec. 30; Nation...
Although complaints have been frequent, no one has heretofore proposed any practicable plan to reform the present state of affairs at Memorial. Recently a gentlemen, unconnected with the college, made a thorough examination of the subject, and presents a number of excellent suggestions. The principal fault to be found with Memorial fare is the poor cooking of the food, due to the insufficient number of cooks, the overtaxing of their patience by the order system and to the absence of sufficient supervision over the kitchen. That the bad quality of the food is due to poor cooking is seen from...