Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...into our office until we had literally to wade through them to get to our editorial desk. And what a variety; enough to put the rats of Hamlin to shame; some, aggressive and pungent, others caustic and malicious, others again, whining and plaintive; one calls for the auditor's report, another for the bursar's; one asks for an expert, and another wants new directors. One writer tells us that, as we had had so much about Memorial, we need not insert his communication unless we wanted to. To this man we must confess ourselves infinitely obliged; really...
...rehearsal every day, to say nothing of the vast drain on the time and energies of the professional managers. A smaller college than Harvard would simply be broken up by it for the entire session." The Nation also expresses its wish (in considering Mr. Arthur Gilman's last report) that an adequately endowed institution may soon take the place of the present annex...
...perfectly, replied the reporter, as clear as the bursar's last report of Memorial...
...report is going the rounds of the press that Chin Tah Fay, a Chinese student, was turned out of the house in which he boarded because his boarding mistress thought he had a "bad eye." This suspicion proved to have been well founded, for news comes from China that, on his return home, he wantonly murdered his father, and was beheaded...
...Arthur Gilman, secretary of the Harvard annex for women, has made his second annual report. During the year, 47 ladies have been enrolled in the classes, 16 of whom were students last year, and the majority of whom followed the classic courses, including the ancient languages. So much of the work was special that 29 classes were formed, under the direction of 8 professors, 3 assistant professors and 12 instructors from the university. The students were from the following-named States: Massachusetts, 39; Connecticut and New York, 2 each; Vermont, Illinois, Minnesota and South Carolina, 1 each...