Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Committee on Elections has made a final report, favorable to the eligibility of Dr. Bellows as an Overseer. The report was accepted, but debate was adjourned until the next meeting of the Corporation...
...entirely agree with the views expressed by our correspondent in regard to the plan suggested in the President's report of having recitations Saturday afternoon. We cannot protest too strongly against such a scheme. Not only would it render it utterly impossible for those students who live at a distance from Cambridge to go home over Sunday, but it would deprive us of the only real half-holiday we have. As to the President's idea of keeping all the students in Cambridge over Sunday, there are very few but will agree with us in thinking that the few additional...
...recent report the President has distinctly opposed the custom of keeping Saturday as a half-holiday, for these reasons: "Instructors and students can have each one leisure afternoon, without a general suspension of work; a student's working-time is greatly reduced by spending Saturday afternoons and Sundays at home; the time thus lost should be spent in reading, writing, and intellectual conversation." With the highest respect for the President's opinions, there is yet some ground for dissent...
...annual report for 1878-79, President Eliot reviews the new statute concerning degrees and the changes in the requisitions for admission. He then speaks of the advantages of the new plan of grouping electives, which gives room for large extension of instruction. In connection with this subject he says...
Upon examining the Dean's Report, it was found that in the collegiate department of Harvard College during the year...