Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other day, after beating the sophomores by four to three at a game of base-ball, raided this fence and sat upon it, heedless of the indefensible unusualness of the act, and of the feelings of the sophomores, who tried to sit there at the same time. The newspaper report of the transaction says that six or seven of the sophomores were dragged over the fence and "shirted," from which it is to be inferred that the proceedings were conducted with considerable spirit, although the exact significance of the verb in quotation marks can merely be guessed...
...acceptance of the report of the Photographic Committee, Pach was chosen class photographer...
...executive-committee to appoint principal desputants, suggest questions for debate, select books referring to subjects for debate to be reserved in a suitable place in the library, arrange for the meetings of the society whenever they have not been provided for by a vote of the society, make a report to the society at the beginning of each half year, and at each semi-annual meeting prepare a list of candidates from which the new members of the society shall be elected...
...magazine we have seen. The table of contents consists of stories, sketches, criticisms, poems, editorials and book reviews, choice morsels for the most delicate palate. It was announced that a feature of each number would be an article from the pen of some prominent alumnus, and common report assigned to Mr. Wendell the honor of contributing the first of this series. Such proves to be the case. The Monthly opens with a sketch by the author of the Duchess Emilia, entitled "Draper." We must confess to a little disappointment in reading it, and dared we say it, we would remark...
...Harvard men, while their libels are written by outsiders. I believe that the time has come for putting a stop to this, especially when one Harvard man stoops to make as cowardly a parade of another one's name as was done by this same correspondent in the report of the freshman class meeting. It seems to me, at least, that when a man assails another man's reputation in the public press and describes his alma mater in an untrue light, he should be made to perceive in the plainest manner possible that he has been violating the traditions...