Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Herbert B. Adams, instructor in history at Johns Hopkins, speaking on this subject says, "The classification and preservation of the best articles on economic, social, and political topics, is found by all to be exceedingly useful. How often does one wish that he had saved the report of some court decision, scholar's address a statesman's speech, a mayor's message, divorce statistics, new facts and illustrations! How often these things would work into the warp and woof of a student's task if he could only lay his hand upon them at the proper moment...
...report of the Dean will soon be out in pamphlet form...
President Eliot speaks most unfavorably of foot ball in his report just published...
President Eliot, commenting, in his last report on the brutality of foot ball, says, "None of the popular games or contests which have proved long lived and respectable, (The italics are our own.) like cricket, tennis, fencing, shooting at a mark, rowing, sailing, hunting, jumping, and racing on foot, horseback, or bicycle, involve any bodily collision between the contestants." The president, in omitting base ball from this list, does not say, unfortunately, whether he places the game among the new, or the disreputable sports. His opinion, however, can be conjectured from the fact that bicycle riding...
Snodkins says, apropos of President Eliot's report, that he believes base-ball is a very ancient sport indeed, for the daughter of Cyrus the Great was Atossa, and, therefore, presumably, a ball-tosser...