A Prize Essay On Civil Service Reform

Excerpt from A Prize Essay on Civil Service Reform: Written for the Boston Civil Service Reform Association In September, he went to Hanover for the study of German and later, in the autumn, he entered the University at Berlin. On the close of the winter semester, he went to Paris and attended several courses of lectures in the College of France, leaving there in time to enter the University at Heidelberg in May, 1881. His impressions of the University and of student life at Heidelberg were given in two letters to the Boston Daily Advertiser. When the semester ended, about the first of August, he made a rapid trip to some of the inost interesting of the South Ger man towns, and then, meeting his mother at Dijon, spent three months in France, Belgium, England, and Ireland, - a considerable part of the time reading in the British Museum, and attending law lectures by Fred eric Harrison and J. D. Mayne on contracts and on torts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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According To This Book, The Task Of Civil Service Reform Is Not Merely One Of Trimming The Service Or Building Capacity, But Also Of Holding The Civil Service Accountable For Its Actions.