Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sight to Freshmen to insure proper attention to their examinations, and forbade smoking, that inseparable concomitant of all deep reflection or literary work. The atmosphere being no longer congenial, it was decided to move, and a committee appointed for the purpose was finally, after much tribulation, enabled to report a favorable location in No. 5 Holyoke House, which was accepted by the society. This room, large, high-studded, and in every way suited to the purposes for which it is intended, has been fitted up in a most becoming manner, with an eye to the aesthetic as well...
...President's Report and the Catalogue have again formed the subject for a criticism from some writer who has had an article of some length published in a recent number of the College Courant. The fact that it has attained undue publicity by finding a place in the columns of the Evening Post has induced us to give it some attention. A just criticism generally has a healthy tendency, and ought to go far toward correcting those faults which it censures. But an incomplete statement of facts, whether done willingly or ignorantly, a slight investigation where a thorough...
...writer in the Courant first attacks the statement that "the examination for admission to Harvard College is at least one year's study higher in standard than the admission examination of any other college in the country," etc. (See Report, page 11.) To disprove this he brings forward a copy of an examination paper on Latin composition, which has in its foot-notes Latin equivalents for most of the English words in the text. He leaves his readers to infer from this single copy that all examination papers presented to candidates for admission to Harvard are of a similar easy...
...President in his Report mentions the fact that some of the Middle and Western States contain schools which prepare boys very successfully for admission here. The substance of this part of the Report has certainly been stated in an unfair manner by the writer in the Courant. The President, in a cursory way, cites specific cases of such schools in some of the Western States, but from the context it would at once be inferred that these were not all, while the writer would give the impression that those mentioned were the only ones. "The Report (page 12) suggests...
...present Junior Class are doubtless sufficiently grateful for the benefit they may have derived from reading fifty lines of Milton once in four weeks (anything in the Dean's Report to the contrary notwithstanding) last year, yet they are not to blame for not yet feeling fully accomplished in that particular. We grant that the infrequency of these recitations was due in a great measure to disturbances created by the divisions during recitation, in accordance with a traditionary and time-honored custom; but because it was time-honored, we cannot believe that it was entirely the fault of the students...