Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THANKS to the courtesy of the Secretary, the Fifty-First Annual Report of the President and Treasurer of Harvard College is before us, containing 150 pages of information of more or less interest to the undergraduate world...
...thoroughly false a report, coming from a paper of the standing of the Advertiser, needs something more than a mere denial. In regard to the admission of women, both the Faculty and the Corporation are decidedly opposed to any such innovation. The experiment of the co-education of the sexes is not at all likely ever to be tried at Harvard. The Boston papers have a habit of inserting - some of them occasionally and others regularly - items of news under such headings as "Harvard University Gossip," "College Notes," and so forth, most of which are either strictly personal or else...
...time when another enticing scheme to draw them hither is but getting under way. We have no doubt that a week taken from the summer vacation would have a decided and baneful effect upon the experiment of the Cincinnati examinations. By turning to President Eliot's last report (p. 11), the policy of the College in this matter will at once be seen. The fact that three months is by no means too long a vacation for those who spend the summer abroad may not have any effect upon the minds of the gentlemen of the Corporation; but let them...
...report calls attention to various needs of the University, among which is "a new hall to contain lecture-rooms for the College." "At least sixteen lecture-rooms," it is stated, "are imperatively demanded." Further the University needs a fire-proof building for the Divinity School Library, "a new gymnasium of three times the capacity of the present building," and apparatus and collections for the Fine Arts Department. The President, moreover, calls for three new professorships, namely, a professorship of Jurisprudence, a professorship of ecclesiastical history, and a professorship of hygiene...
...Dean's report concerning the examinations for admission in 1876 we learn that fifty-two per cent of the candidates failed to pass in English composition, while the percentage of those who failed in Greek composition was only twenty-seven per cent, and in Latin only twenty-five per cent...