 | 1855 - 622 pages
...the country. These men зреак of the proposed scheme in the highest terms. Mr. John Mill says, " The proposal to select candidates for the civil service...the adoption of which would form an era in history." And Mr. Chadwick, whose paper, extending to the length of a treatise of nearly a hundred pages, goes... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1878 - 896 pages
...sanguine predictions as to their effect on education. Mr. John Stuart Mill greeted the project as ' one of those great public improvements, , the adoption of which would form an era in history.' The Head Master of Harrow, Dr. Vaughan, wrote: ' The great benefit which I anticipate from the projected... | |
 | Dorman Bridgman Eaton - 1880 - 524 pages
...the proposed abdication of all the patronage of the Crown in the public offices must invoke. . . . The proposal to select candidates for the civil service...the adoption of which would form an era in history. ... It still seems to me that the ultimate result of open competition will be a democratic civil service,... | |
 | Dorman Bridgman Eaton - 1880 - 502 pages
...the proposed abdication of all the patronage of the Crown in the public offices must invoke. . . . The proposal to select candidates for the civil service...the adoption of which would form an era in history. ... It still seems to me that the ultimate result of open competition will be a democratic civil service,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1880 - 1266 pages
...proposed abdication of all the patronage of the Crown in the public offices must invoke. . . . Tlit- proposal to select candidates for the civil service...the adoption of which would form an era in history. . . . It still seems to me that the ultimate result of open сошj>etitiou will be a, democratic civil... | |
 | Dorman Bridgman Eaton - 1880 - 504 pages
...patronage of the Crown in the public offices must invoke. . . . The proposal to select candidates fur the civil service of government by a competitive examination...the adoption of which would form an era in history. ... It still seems to me that the ultimate result of open competition will be a democratic civil service,... | |
 | 1882 - 1096 pages
...said in 1855, of the proposal to establish open competitive examinations in the English service, " one of those great public improvements, the adoption of which would form an era in histon'." Such, then, has been the fruition in the federal government in the great states of New York... | |
 | 1883 - 554 pages
...Mill said in 1855 of the proposal to establish open competitive examinations in the English service, " one of those great public improvements " the adoption of which would form an era in history." Such then has been the fruition in the federal government, in the great states of New York and Massachusetts... | |
 | 1884 - 692 pages
...said in 1855, of the proposal to establish open competitive examinations in the English service, " one of those great public improvements, the adoption of which would form an era in history." Such, then, has been the fruition in the federal government in the great states of New York and Massachusetts,... | |
 | Robert Moses - 1914 - 340 pages
...IQIZ CHAPTER III THE BEGINNING OF REFORM " The proposal to select candidates for the Civil Service by a competitive examination appears to me to be one...the adoption of which would form an era in history." — John Stuart Mill. " Most of his [Trevelyan's] correspondents thought that the idea was hopelessly... | |
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The proposal to select candidates for the civil service of government by a competitive examination appears to me to be one of those great public improvements, the adoption of which would form an era in history. 
