Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...give below extracts from the report of the Executive Committee of the Annex, in which an appeal is made for funds to purchase a suitable recitation building to accommodate the large number of students expected next year...
...request of President Eliot, no report of his lecture last evening is published in to-day's CRIMSON...
...care be taken in admitting special students to the various courses of the university, and that the several faculties use every effort to maintain a strict discipline, and to admit in this department any persons who show that they seek these advantages for the purpose of genuine study. The report of the committee on the relations of the faculty to the overseers was adopted, and Hon. Mr. Lowell was appointed a committee to express the regret of the board in accepting the resignation of the president of the board, Hon. E. Rockwood Hoar. Adjourned to June...
...examination-room upon subjects drawn from books which the candidates were required to read before presenting themselves. Of these, not more than 100-to make a generous estimate-were creditable to either writer or teacher. This year I did not read the books, but one who did makes this report: "Few were remarkably good, and few extraordinarily bad; a tedious mediocrity was everywhere...
...have been all the more surprised at this report since it seems to us that the most casual examination of facts will show that the instruction is both "systematic and progressive." For the past few years the work in written English, both prescribed and elective, has been of a constantly higher grade, and the increasing interest of the students in this work is strong evidence that the instruction has been successful. While we are by no means certain that at to prescribe class themes is the best way to teach men to write, we believe that the present instructors...