Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...observing and logical "Father" writes to the Nation apropos President Porter's report with its accompanying theories of paternal college government. We commend his points to anxious fathers generally. This is his eminently sensible argument: "If my son can, whereever I send him, do with his evenings in a college building, or who knows where else, what he chooses, and with all the time he spends in his own room or anybody else's what he chooses, in what important particular are his morals safer under the most than under the least paternal of college governments?" This correspondent's postscript...
...daily weather report seem to trouble the minds of the Princeton editors more than any other department of the HERALD. Close your eyes, editors of the Princetonian, when you come to the weather report, and, if you wish, glance over the rest of the paper...
...second question, 'Why not teach boys as well as young women to cook?' drew forth the response that the lecturer heartily approved of such a plan, and had actually taught a class at Harvard." - [From a report of a lecture by Miss Parloa...
...president for the ensuing year; H. Putnam, '83, vice-president; E. A. Hibbard, '84, was chosen secretary, and E. S. Middleton, '85, treasurer. The chair postponed the appointment of the executive committee until the next meeting. The reading room committee was re-elected. The following is the treasurer's report; Dr. - Balance, $9.85; received from Harv. Leg., .85; assessments, $15.50; from reading room committee, $134; total, $160.20. Cr. - To janitor, $7; keys redeemed, $3; incidentals, $5.55; cash on hand, $10.65; balance with reading room committee, $15.29; bills paid, $118.71; total, $160.20. The subject for the next debate (date...
...comfortable to the occupant of a room, no one can for a moment doubt; neither can any one question the fact that it would be infinitely less trouble-some than the clumsy system now in vogue. In regard to the question of health, we quote from the last annual report of President Porter, of Yale, in which he says, "The most serious foes to health are late hours, late suppers *** and exposures to heat, dampness, and cold. The provisions for heating so many of our public and private apartments by steam is, and has proved to be, an important security...