Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last annual report President Porter of Yale declares that, "The manners of the students at the chapel exercises have very steadily improved within the last few years. The attendance was never more full, the behaviour never more decorous, and the satisfaction with the arrangement [compulsory prayers and church] never more complete than at the present time...
...significant word on the subject of steamheating is contained in the following passage of his report: "The most serious foes to health are late hours, late suppers, insufficient clothing, and imprudent exposures to heat and 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 against disease. The interest in athletic sports is, on the whole, an advantage to health and morals and good manners...
Printed copies of the president's report will not be ready for nearly two weeks...
...University of California, in the mathematical classes, each student is allowed to assign his own lesson, the only requirements being that he shall report his progress each day for recitation and be ready for an examination at a certain time...
...National Rifle Association met in New York last evening. Gen. Hancock presided and after his report, in which he advocated more practice in shooting, resigned. The following-named new officers were elected: President, Gen. E. L. Molineux; vice-president, Gen. G. W. Wingate; secretary, G. J. Seabury; treasurer, Col. J. H. Cowperthwait...