Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...REPORT OF AUDITING COMMITTEE.CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 13th...
...commissioner of pensions, in his annual report to Congress, recommends a more equitable distribution of pensions, and advocates many other reforms...
Telegrams to the London Times from various parts of the United Kingdom report a snow storm of unusual severity. Traffic on the railways in many districts has been almost, if not altogether, suspended. Many wrecks around the coast are reported...
...vast improvement has been made over the system which formerly prevailed that we ought to congratulate ourselves upon living under the present regime. The earliest method about which we have any definite knowledge was to have marks assigned for every recitation, and at the end of the month a report was made out from these marks. Absence from recitations and absence from prayers were made to count against the delinquent. Then at the end of the year the classes reviewed the work of the year preparatory to an oral examination held by a board of examiners. Their examination, however, counted...
...part of the students of the University of Edinburgh, an account which we reproduce in another column. What morals the English papers have been drawing from these proceedings, which, we believe, have become customary from long usage and sanctioned by venerable tradition, we are uninformed. To Americans certainly this report will naturally suggest unamiable reflections and perhaps unavoidably will prompt odious comparisons. Beside such a scene as this, hazing, with all its attendant horrors, dwindles into insignificance, We venture to assert that nowhere in America has such a brutal and disgraceful performance ever taken place at any of our colleges...