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" Military and civil methods of administration are entirely diverse, and proceed upon diametrically opposed theories. The military officer plans and commands ; the civil officer hears, weighs and decides."* That ideas are sometimes outranked in boards of... "
Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies - Page 77
by Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) - 1886
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On the Organization of Scientific Work of the General Government, Part 1

John Wesley Powell - 1885 - 204 pages
...composed of civil and military officers would, it is believed, be inharmonious, from the fact that military and civil methods of administration are entirely...commands; the civil officer hears, weighs, and decides. In the second place, the Board, as thus recommended, would be impracticable in its relations to the...
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Science, Volume 5

John Michels (Journalist) - 1885 - 592 pages
...commission formed partly of civilians and partly of military men, as composed of incongruous elements, since military and civil methods of administration are entirely...commands : the civil officer hears, weighs, and decides. He makes a more forcible objection by showing how delicate the relations of a board composed largely...
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Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine, Volume 34

1886 - 540 pages
...lack of proper method, is gratifying ', evidence of what might result from a j definitive policy. j " Military and civil methods- of administration are...man of engineering habits of thought is a poor field officer.f If so, how far is a military training adapted to making the best civil engineer ? One thing...
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Testimony Before the Joint Commission to Consider the Present Organizations ...

United States. Congress. Joint Commission to Consider the Present Organizations of the Signal Service, Geological Survey, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Hydrographic Office of the Navy Department - 1886 - 1362 pages
...composed of civil and military officers would, it is believed, be inharmonious, from the fact tbat military and civil methods of administration are entirely...commands; the civil officer hears, weighs, and decides. In the. second place, the Board, as thus recommended, would be impracticable in its relations to the...
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