Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...report of the Dean of the College contains the usual figures and data relating to attendance, gains and losses, entrance examinations, election of courses, instruction, and so forth. Athletics and the Committee of Conference have prominent mention. A table, showing the choices of studies made by the two freshman classes who have had the privilege of election, is given at the close of the Dean's report. In the present freshman class 191 have elected Latin, 132 History, 125 Greek, 100 French, 92 Mathematics, and 82, 36, 19 and 18, Natural History, German, Chemistry and Physics respectively. The choices...
...glad to receive a correction of our editorial of a few days ago on the Yale faculty's treatment of Prof. Thompson. The report, on which we based our rather disparaging remarks, came from prominent Boston journals, and is only another evidence of the loose way in which daily journalism seems now to be conducted. We regret that we allowed ourselves to be so credulous, but nevertheless feel that we are not inexcusable...
...Mugwump," "boycott," and "bull-dose" will be legitimate parts of the language when they are inserted in the new dictionaries, which, if report is true, will receive the words as regular...
SEWARD CARY, '86,F. S. COOLIDGE, '87,G. A. MORRISON, '87,Committee,SYMPHONY CONCERT USHERS. - All ushers for the concert this evening in Sanders Theatre at 7.15 sharp. All who are unable to be present must furnish substitutes who will report at the same time...