Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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English VI. Oral discussion. Opened by Messrs. Robinson and Smith. The Legal Tender Decision in the Light of Mr. George Bancroft's recent Pamphlet. Sever...
...pamphlet containing the annual reports of the president and treasury of Harvard College for 1884-85 shows an increase of thirty pages over that for 1883-84. President Eliot's report is devoted almost entirely to an elaborate study of the working of the elective system. Of the system itself the report says: "It is emphatically a method in education, which has a moral as well as an intellectual end, and is consistent with a just authority while it grants a just liberty." The twenty-one pages, on which is a complete record of every member of the classes...
...books at Gore Hall, afford emphatic evidence of the increasing value of the library to members of the university. The reports of the director of the Physical Laboratory and of Mr. Alexander Agassiz, of the Zoological Museum, are specially interesting. The treasurer's report occupies a fifth of the pamphlet. The income for the departments dependent upon the college proper was $268,260.76; expenses, $266,307,33. The Divinity School also has a surplus, $271. - 17; but the Law School has a deficit of $412.86. The Medical School has a surplus of $2,039.10; and the Dental School...
...elective pamphlet of the coming year will probably contain many of the changes and additions which have been so much discussed among college men, and in the papers...
...philosophical department would extend its influence and inform the students far better of its work if a pamphlet describing the courses could be published. Several of the departments notably the more popular, have shown commendable interest in this particular in past years and their success speaks well for the custom. At present a student can only gain a more intimate knowledge of the philosophical course at the expense of considerable time and trouble. A pamphlet similar to that issued by the Natural History department, for example, could not fail to interest many in a department which is at present somewhat...