The following statement has been sent to the CRIMSON from the office of the State Department at Washington:

The U. S. Civil Service Commission will hold an examination at 9 a. m. on February 12, to fill a vacancy in the position of Catalogue clerk in the Library of the State Department, at a salary of $900 per annum.

The subjects of the examination will be penmanship; copying; letter writing; arithmetic; history; geography; bibliography; and languages; (Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian and German).

The first six subjects will have a weight of 6-20ths, and each of the others 7-20ths of the whole examination.

It will be useless for anyone to apply for the examination who has not a knowledge of least three of the five languages, as follows: Dutch, and either German or French, and Spanish or Italian. The translations will be only from the foreign language to English and of an elementary character. The examinations will include questions on the physical condition of the competitors, and it will be useless for persons who are not physically strong to apply for the place. The examination will be held in this city (Washington), and arrangements may be made to give it in some other large cities of the country, if there are applicants who would be better accommodated there.

Persons desiring to compete should procure blanks at once and file their applications with the Civil Service Commission.