Word: reporter
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In a recent issue of the New York World appeared a report of the meeting of the Yale alumni. The choice of a successor to Dr. Noah Porter was discussed at some length, but the principal topic of conversation was whether Yale should have an elective system similar to the one now adopted at Harvard. One of the speakers said, "I never knew a boy who went to college at the proper time, from sixteen to nineteen years of age, who knew what line of study was really best for him. Yale has recently been compared disparagingly...
Professor J. W. White, as chairman of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, has just issued his annual report. It is addressed to the Council of Archaeological Institute of America. The death of Prof. Lewis R. Packard, of Yale, one of the Directors of the School, has crippled the management. Referring to him Prof. White writes: "The Committee feel keenly the loss that classical studies have sustained in the death at middle age of a man in whom were united in happy adjustment such thoroughness of training, high scholarship, independence of opinion, and ready...
...report of the Athletic Committee, which probably will be submitted at the faculty meeting this afternoon is awaited with much interest by the students. The committee is thoroughly representative of the athletic interests of the college, composed as it is of a graduate and two undergraduates who are prominent in athletics, together with the director of the gymnasium and a prominent medical authority in Cambridge. Its report, whatever it may be, will receive careful consideration from the faculty, and its recommendation will undoubtedly have great weight. Two branches of our athletics will receive especial attention, rowing and foot-ball...
...Sargent is writing the report of the Athletic Committee which is to be delivered to the faculty at their meeting to morrow afternoon. It will cover the whole of the year 1885, and will especially discuss the matter of the employment of a coach by the crew and the foot-ball question. It is expected that the faculty will then decide whether inter-collegiate foot-ball will be allowed next fall...
...Meyerbeer march. The latter was played with excellent spirit and expression, and richly deserved the encore accorded it. The yodeling was a feature of the concert that won great applause. It was evidently a novelty; this fact being evinced by the manner of its reception and by the report of one of the papers next morning; the ingenious reporter had evidently looked it up in his unabridged and in accordance with its definition praised "Mr. C - 's funny falsetto singing...