Document, Tema 3published for the Women's Auxiliary of the Massachusetts Civil Service Reform Association., 1904 List of members in Annual report, no. 1-7. |
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Página 2 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.
Página 1 - I wish," he wrote, in his simple phrase, (<I could get time to attend to the Southern question. I think I know what is wanted and believe I could do something toward quieting the rising discontent, but the office-seekers demand all my time. I am like a man so busy letting rooms in one end of his house that he cannot stop to put out the fire that is burning in the other.