THE CIVIL SERVICE.
I This is what Mr Simmons, Head Master of the Nelson College, thinks about boys oing into the Civil Service : —"I cannot Sommend any boy, in whom I take an into go into a service of which 50 per | ' may and, must be ejected as soon as | \on makes itself felt. Of course I make I 'ception of the Public Works Office, ft a boy learns to be an engineer ; and ■ • Actuaries' Office, where one also learns ■ ill trade with a substantial value in H .'i-viliaed community. But the unfortuH /. : .!rang' men, who spend the ten most H jfcyears of their lives in learning how to H jf'sbody's most obedient servant, will mselves in;jrveryTiwkwaTd position lie country dispenses with their serTo put it shortly the. gate, in other Hjf .who, examination, appears: excellent; If *uock inside not worth much."
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Evening Star, Issue 4021, 15 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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142THE CIVIL SERVICE. Evening Star, Issue 4021, 15 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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