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Moorfield Storey and Leverett Saltonstall, Harvard overseers, have been elected directors of the Massachusetts Reform Club...
...other change to which we object seems to us entirely unnecessary. The only thing urged in its favor is that the batter will thus be given a slightly better chance of hitting the ball safely. The better way to work a reform in this direction is, as we have suggested above, to diminish the efficiency of the pitcher. By abolishing the foul-bound catch the advantage given to the batter will be comparatively small, and at the same time some of the prettiest and most brilliant plays which now add so much to the interest of the game will...
...House passed the Pendleton civil-service reform bill yesterday in the precise form in which it passed the Senate, by a vote...
Professor William G. Sumner of Yale College delivered an address on the "Democratic Theory of Public Office" last night, before the Civil Service Reform Association of Rochester...
...decided expression of opinion has yet come from Brown on the question. It is hoped that she will favor the move however. It will be seen from the above that although definite sentiments have not as yet been generally formed, a tendency to favor the move as an advisable reform is apparent. The question deserves careful consideration. Interference with the right of any party will not be countenanced, we believe, and yet the best interests of the majority cannot justly be made to suffer to favor the wishes...