Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...report that a committee had been appointed to investigate the Senior-Class elections turns out to be founded on the existence of a Sub-Committee on Class Day, composed of members of the Visiting Committee on Discipline. The members of the Committee, it is reported, would be glad to assist in any way possible towards a successful Class...
...Visiting Committee for 1875 - 76 have made their report. While they find the College generally in a satisfactory and improving condition, changes are suggested in almost all the departments. In the department of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, although "the young men are stimulated to think for themselves upon controverted points, and care is taken to acquaint them with the objections which must be met before satisfactory conclusions can be reached," the result often unsettles conviction and produces "a sceptical turn of mind which is the more hopeless because it thinks itself rational and scientific." In Philosophy 3, the Critique...
...subject of pecuniary aid to students, discussed by the President in his late report, is not entirely disconnected with other affairs in the College which it was not the business of the report to dwell upon. The fact that the present system of pecuniary assistance is not a success reminds me of other things about which the same thing might be said. The trouble, as I see it, is that the underlying principle is wrong. The aid is given as a means, and is not made an end; it is bestowed as a crust is flung to a beggar...
Reserving the matter of greatest interest till the end, the Dean concludes his report with some remarks on voluntary attendance at recitation. After a number of tables of statistics concerning the attendance of Seniors, which will no doubt prove highly entertaining to the members of the three lower classes, the report closes as follows...
...that highly entertaining document the Treasurer's report, we can only recommend its careful study to all aspirants for the position of business editor of the Crimson...