Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the trustees of Columbia College Monday afternoon a report was received from the special committee to which was referred in February the petition addressed to the board by the association for promoting the higher education of women in New York...
...tour of inspection in order to discover, if possible, any new methods or improvements in teaching which might be introduced at West Point, will be remembered. After visiting Harvard, Yale, and some few other colleges, these gentlemen have returned to their posts of duty and have made their report on what they have observed and learned. The Army and Navy Journal publishes this report, which furnishes some decidedly interesting reading. The gentlemen declare themselves to be perfectly satisfied with the methods in vogue at West Point, and say that they have obtained very few ideas from their tour. This...
...report of a committee from the board of overseers has just been made which recommends some modifications in the requirements for final honors, and that a special committee of the faculty be given charge of all applications for final honors and authorized to decide each application on its merits...
...report which appeared in the New York papers, that the Princeton faculty had rescinded its rule forbidding practice with professionals, proves to have been premature. The position we occupied, however, when we supposed the report to be true, remains unchanged. It is certain that a large proportion of students and graduates at Princeton as well as at Harvard are strongly opposed to the strict enforcement of the rule. There has been a general inclination to try the rule and see how it would work. But a theory which looked very plausible while as yet untried proves a failure when...
...large audience was present in Sever 11 last evening to hear Dr. F. W. Putnam's lecture on "Recent Discoveries in American Archaeology." Dr. Putnam was detailed by the Peabody Museum last summer to investigate and report upon the contents of the mounds in the Little Miami valley, and accordingly, in company with Dr. Metz of Washington, he was employed from May until December in conducting a series of explorations, which have resulted in adding largely to the stock of information possessed concerning the American mound builders. In his lecture last evening Dr. Putnam was necessarily unable to describe...