Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to the occupations, or professional destinations of 1226 recent graduates, the survivors of ten classes (1867-1876), as stated in the class reports issued (with one exception) three years after the year of graduation, the following interesting table is given in President Eliot's report: Law, 36 per cent.; medicine, 10 per cent.; theology, 5 per cent.; scientific, 6 per cent.; teaching, 9 per cent.; business, 21 per cent.; unknown and miscellaneous, 13 per cent...
...learn from the Treasurer's Report that the total amount of gifts for immediate use received by the University during the past year...
...president's report will be read with interest by all persons connected with Harvard University. This document is to the Harvard community what President Arthur's annual message to Congress is to the country at large. Every year it is looked forward to as the official presentation of facts and solution of difficulties that have puzzled us. Here we expect to find explanations for actions that have been incomprehensible and therefore to some extent have seemed unnecessary. The document before us gives us the explanations and presents a great deal of matter of interest...
After brief reference to the Scientific School, the Dental School, the Botanic Garden, and the Bussey Institution, the report spoke of the striking activity of the chemical laboratory and the operations of the library. Whenever the expenses of the college threaten to exceed its receipts the corporation turns to the library as the best place in which to reduce expenses, because library work can be postponed, while teaching cannot. What the library greatly needs is funds amounting to at least $400,000, the income of which could be applied to the cost of administration and service...
...From the report of the treasurer it appears that the total amount of the separate trust funds held by him is $686,515.84, and the income from them this year is $31,367.19. The other funds of the college, which are invested as a whole, show a total this year of $4,511,861.59 a net increase over the previous year of $278,441.34. The annual income from this general capital is $233,352.88. The rate of income for 1882-83 is likely to be below five and a half per cent. The deficit for the year in the departments...