Word: indexer
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...resident graduates of a college are an index to the enthusiasm which its work inspires. In 1873 there were 60 of these at Yale; now there are but 42. Harvard in 1873 had 55 post-graduates; in 1885 the number had increased to 72. During this period the pecuniary allurements of post-graduate study had increased at New Haven over 300 per cent.; at Cambridge they had less than doubled...
There are a few serious mistakes in the Index. For instance, F. L. Dean, of Harvard, took second prize in the bicycle race at the Mott Haven sports, instead of Benton of Columbia. The feather-weight sparring, and not the feather-weight wrestling, was contested at the second winter meeting. The heavy-weight wrestling, which was won by Mr. Keith, '85, has been altogether omitted...
...Index is now on sale at Amee's, Severs...
...Index, which has already been reviewed in our columns, is put on sale to-day. We do not doubt that it will be favorably received by the college at large. The Index, although an extremely unpretentious volume, contains matters that are of greatest interest to its Harvard readers; it is the means by which the achievements of the college at large and of its individual members are recorded. Whoever would know what has been accomplished by any Harvard undergraduate, or by any Harvard organization, has but to look over the Index, and there read the inevitable record. Certain pages...
...typographical appearance the book is all that could be wished. Slight errors will doubtless be found, but in such a volume of names and figures and general data, this is not surprising. That this year's Index is a success cannot be denied. To Mr. D. B. Chamberlain, '86, the editor, the thanks of the college are certainly due for a neat and well compiled volume...