Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report of the financies of Yale College for the past year shows that the expenses of the college greatly exceeded the income. While one or two departments of the college succeeded in registering a slight surplus over their expenses, the academical department ran greatly in arrears. Various reasons have been assigned for the deficit, but the cause is yet somewhat in doubt. Some remarks have been made connecting the matter with the recent resignation of President Porter. But this explanation can be hardly satisfactory And yet the college, if we may judge from the unprecedented size of the present freshman...
First, the action of the Harvard faculty in prohibiting the Harvard team from longer playing in the inter-collegiate association. Secondly, the gross reports which were published regarding the game played on the Polo Ground, Thanksgiving Day. Thirdly, the report of the Harvard committee, which was sent throughout the country; and, fourthly, the action of the Princeton faculty. Of these causes the reports of the daily papers on the Thanksgiving day game did more to cause a decline in foot-ball than all the other causes combined. - N. Y. Sportsman...
Following is a summary made from the advance sheets of the sixth annual report of the secretary and the treasurer of "The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women by Professors and other Instructors of Harvard College." The executive officers of the association are, president, Mrs. Louis Agassiz; secretary, Mr. Arthur Gilman; treasurer, Miss Alice M. Longfellow. Many of Harvard's most noted professors are members of the corporation. The important event of the past year is the purchase for the use of the society of the Fay estate, 10 Garden street, at a cost of $20,000. This...
...treasurer's report states that the cost of instruction and administration together for the year was more than $200 per student, and that the tuition fees received from students averaged $135.53. It is plain that these fees cannot meet the expenses of instruction. A large endowment fund is needed, for which the society has appealed. The permanent endowment fund of $100,000, to be raised by subscription, now amounts to $88,584.94, and is invested in good securities...
...conclusion, the report states "that the enterprise enters upon its seventh year with greater reasons for hopefulness, both in respect to the co-operation of the professors of Harvard College and the earnest work of its increasing number of students, than it ever before enjoyed...