Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard Civil Service Reform Club. Address. C. J. Bonaparte '71. Sanders Theater...
...Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore who graduated in the class of '71, and has been for several years one of the Board of Overseers of the University, will deliver an address March 23 under the auspices of the Civil Service Reform Club. He will speak on some subject connected with Civil Service Reform...
...Bonaparte has long taken an active part in the Reform movement, and is a members of the Executive Committee of the National League. He has moreover a wide-spread reputation as a speaker...
...meeting held in the Reform Club, New York, the representatives of the various colleges, Professor B. I. Wheeler of Cornell, F. S. Bangs and J. A. B. Cowles of Columbia, Thomas Reath for the U. of P., and Captain Goodrich of Harvard finally came to a decision as to the boat race...
Professor Taussig said by way of introduction that there were two objects in the reform of the civil service-a positive one in securing the men best fitted for the service, and a negative one in eliminating the spoils idea from the service and thus helping to purify public life. Whatever may be said of the results in regard to the first object, it is pretty certain that the reform does away with appointment for political reasons. But there arises another difficulty in the way of purification of public life. It is in the blackmailing of corporations by those...