Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...full report of the exercises at the Centennial Celebration at Phillips Exeter Academy has been published in pamphlet form...
...third annual report of the committee on the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, which has just been published, has been prepared by Professor John Williams White, chairman of the committee, and contains much valuable and useful information about the school and its present condition...
...attendance during the first year was much larger than during the second, which the report says "was to be expected, since opportunities for systematic study at Athens under skilled direction was then offered for the first time to American students, and immediately attracted to the school pupils who have subsequently returned to other parts of Europe and to America for the completion of their studies. There is good reason to believe that a number of competent students will be in attendance at the school during the coming year...
...report contains an interesting account of the director's house and the library of the school. This has recently received large additions, "so that when the books now ordered shall have been received it will number about eight hundred volumes (exclusive of periodicals and pamphlets), illustrating the history, geography, antiquities, and art of ancient Greece. Works of this kind are expensive, and at the end of the second year the books in the library obtained by direct purchase will have cost $2500. Of this sum the committee voted from its funds $2000." The remaining $500 was the gift...
Another arrangement which is but temporary, is the annual appointment of some professor from the contributing colleges to the position of director. In a few years it is hoped that a competent instructor may be obtained who will occupy the position permanently. The report, however, points out that this temporary arrangement has been an excellent one for the first few years of the school. "That the presence in various colleges of professors who shall have been resident a year at Athens under favorable circumstances, in practical direction of the school, will do much to increase the interest in the school...