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Last Monday evening, at a meeting of the Brookline Civil Service Reform Association, prizes were awarded to the following-named gentlemen : To Mr. William H. White, Law School, a first prize for an essay on "The Effects of the Spoils System on National Legislation," and to the same gentleman another prize for an essay on "Conflict between the claims of locality and method of competitive examination suggested in the Pendleton Bill;" Mr. Marland C. Hobbs, class of '85, received the third prize for an essay on "The Effect of the Spoils System on National Legislation." Competitors were residents of Brookline...
...only threatened with a universal era of co-education, but in the opinion of the president of Boston University, as expressed in his recent annual report, a still greater reform is in store for us. The time is not far distant, President Warren thinks, when women equally with men will be called to fill the professorships in our great universities, and indeed will come to supersede men as teachers and investigators in many branches of study. "As a rule," he says, "the old style teaching of languages, history and literature by men has always been mechanical, unsympathetic, spiritless...
...poet of the Williams Argo views with hilarity the prospect of the reform of the civil service and the introduction of "competitive examinations." He explains his little scheme as follows...
...drift that opinion in the matter is taking among progressive educators, and is especially interesting as indicating the probable views of the Harvard faculty in general as to the system. The question is certainly one of the highest moment in university administration, and the importance of a thorough reform in the methods at present in vogue is becoming more and more clearly recognized. That Harvard will soon find it necessary to move in the matter seems to be an idea that is daily gaining ground. Whether the outcome of any reform will result in the adoption of some modification...
...Cornell Era publishes a lengthy extract on athletics from President Eliot's report, terming it a "commendable reform." "On the basis of President Eliot's plans," it says, "great good may result to a large number who at present take no interest in healthful exercise...