Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Shaler, James, Ass't. Prof. Croswell and Mr. Wendell. Huddleston, Merriam, Phillips, Smith and Vogel represented '86; F. S. Coolidge, Furber, Peabody, '87; Garrison, Lund, Thayer, '88, and Houghton, '86, and Adams, '88, the college at large. Coolidge, '87, was elected clerk of the conference. Mr. Merriam presented the report of the special committee appointed to correspond with other colleges on marking systems. The report embraced twenty two colleges. A general discussion ensued of the various systems, the tendency being to favor a system of ranking by general classes. The great objection to such a plan was shown...
...Yale News for Dec. 1 devotes by far the larger part of its first page to "clippings" from the Princetonian's report of the Yale Princeton game, and enlivens these clippings with characteristic comments. We reprint in another column one of the News' comments, and think that it will be enough to convey to Harvard readers the general feeling that just at present pervades the Yale mind. That the enthusiasm which the Princetonian naturally displayed in its report, should be extremely unpleasant to Yale readers, is hardly surprising. While we do not say that the Princetonian showed perfect taste...
...next meeting of the Conference Committee will be held next Wednesday, in Sever 3. At this meeting the report of the committee on the marking system will be read, containing the information received from twenty out of the twenty-five colleges which have been interrogated in regard...
...coming meeting of the Conference Committee on Wednesday suggests the marking system. The report of the special committee, appointed to correspond with other colleges on marking systems, will be made at this meeting and will embrace information from about twenty colleges. The work of this committee will be accomplished when a concise report containing an abstract of this information shall have been submitted: It then remains for the conference to discuss various plans. Discussion is necessary; no result can be reached without it. We all earnestly hope, however, that discussion on this question will crystallize into some suggestion of destruction...
...wish to do. The changes inaugurated for this year have increased the demands formerly made on the student. To do the minimum amount of reading on the average lecture and make notes of the matter read, requires from two to three hours, and the student has still his special report to prepare and the general readings to attend to. As but few copies of the books in which reading is required are in the library to be reserved, and as the library is open only during the day, and can be consulted as a rule only between recitations...