Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: I would like to ask what the item "crockery assessment" includes in the monthly auditor's report of Memorial Hall. In the last report the assessment was $194.56, and the assessment has never been less than $100. The charge surely cannot be for the breaking of crockery, as even the proverbial carelessness of waiters could not destroy that amount in one or two months...
...recent meeting of the Harvard Bicycle Club the committee appointed for the dinner made a report which showed that all arrangements which can ensure a successful dinner have been satisfactorily made. The further business of the meeting was the discussion of a plan for races to be given by the club in the spring. This plan, which has for some time been talked of among the directors, was ???ally settled after a satisfactory report of a committee appointed to investigate the matter. It was definitely decided that the club should hold a race meeting at Beacon park on Wednesday...
...announcement in another column that Mr. Taussig will give four lectures covering all the main points in the history of our tariff legislation cannot fail to excite general interest. A question of such national importance, which the doings and report of the late tariff commission have brought so prominently before the country, claims the careful attention of all who are interested in the policy of our government, and these lectures, covering the past and present policy of the country in regard to tariff, will furnish an easy means of getting a good general idea of the subject. The announcement...
...Cornell Era publishes a lengthy extract on athletics from President Eliot's report, terming it a "commendable reform." "On the basis of President Eliot's plans," it says, "great good may result to a large number who at present take no interest in healthful exercise...
...remarks in regard to this method to which were made by President Eliot in his annual report, are quoted and then the writer continues : "It will thus be seen that the whole influence of the school is against 'cheap' lawyers. 'A noble profession nobly filled' is dinned into the ears of the future advocate till he becomes ashamed of many whom he sees practising in the courts. The progressive changes in the regulations, of the school cut off many inferior men, but their places have been readily filled by those whom the school will be proud to send into...