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...Advertiser, speaking of the recently published prize essays of the Civil Service Reform Association of Boston, says of the late Mr. W. A. Smith of the class of '80: "That of Mr. Walter Allen Smith, which took the first prize, is a paper which will intensify greatly the sorrow and regret at his early death; for a young man who could prepare so broad, so thoughtful and so ripe an essay, expressed in such an easy and happy style, was capable of great things, and his death is a loss to his State and his country...
Civil Service Reform is said to have triumphed in the recent decisions made by the Milwaukee board of education in regard to the tenure of office of teachers. The superintendent is trying to make arrangements whereby length of service and continued faithfulness may have some substantial acknowledgment...
...dissipate any embitterments which may have arisen, to form a lasting remembrance of the happiest day of the college year, depend upon two games of base-ball? Should the misfortune of the few heap the greatest misfortune upon the many? Perhaps, however, this is meant as a grand reform; and the defeat of the nine, the crew, or the eleven at the hands of Yale, will deprive them of time-honored privileges. By all means, let this decision be rescinded, and, depend upon it, the freshman nine, if they represent a class placed on level with the more advanced, will...
...Senate committee on civil service reform is now considering Mr. Pendleton's bill prohibiting political assessments, and the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution providing for the election of minor federal officers by the people...
...believe that the experiment, lately inaugurated by the college, of granting liberty to seniors "of regulating their own conduct as regards attendance at church," has resulted satisfactorily; we see no reason to doubt its success. It has certainly been a popular reform in the regulations. Therefore we see no reasons why a like liberty should not be extended to juniors. All the arguments that apply in favor of granting it to seniors must apply equally well in favor of extending it to juniors. Statistics show that the average age of entrance into Harvard is nineteen years; therefore the average...