Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mistake of the printer, the name of Mr. Allaniah Davis Cole, who spoke Hayne's "Speech in the Senate," was omitted in the report yesterday of the Boylston prize speaking...
...English; James Metivier, Ph. D., in French; Kuno Francke, Ph. D., in German; Frank W. Tausig, Ph. D., in political economy; Albert B. Hart. Ph. D., in American history; Harold Whiting, Ph. D., in physics; Oliver W. Huntington, A. B., in mineralogy; all the above being concurred in. The report of the committee on degrees was made and laid on the table, and that of the committee on instruction in written English was presented and referred back for recommendations. Adjourned...
This great question of elective vs. prescribed studies is still unsettled, and everyone's opinion on it should be treated with respect. When, however, one argues from such premises as above, some protest, in justice to the name of truth, should be uttered. By reference to the Dean's report, our esteemed contemporary will find that in the year 1883-84, the most popular courses in our college were not by any means the "snaps" or easy courses that appear in our elective pamphlet, but that, on the contrary, the hardest courses, those requiring the greatest research, and the most...
...editorial in the last number of the Advocate on the Couference Report is misleading in one or two respects. It deplores the omission of a clause specifying that a majority of student members shall have power to call a meeting of the conference, and states that there was an understanding between the faculty and the faculty members of the committee to that effect. As a matter of fact, the faculty left the whole question as to how and when meetings should be called to be decided by the committee itself-that is, to the student members. Such a matter falls...
...second place, as to the report faculty members are to make to the conference of action the faculty may have taken on the resolution of a previous conference, the Advocate says: "It would be better if the student members felt they had the right to ask the grounds on which the faculty based its action in case of disagreement." The faculty struck out the original clause requlring this, not because they were unwilling that this should be done, but because they knew from experience that it could not be done, exactly, authoritatively and officially. It would be impossible to give...