Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...optional examination system was used for the first time exclusively and proved very successful. The second year of the voluntary religious system has proved even more successful than the first. The report of the athletic committee is most encouraging, and in reply to the critics of our athletics the faculty urge, that dyspepsia is less tolerable than a stiffened knee or thumb, and that effeminacy and luxury are even worse evils than brutality." A new regulation requires holders of scholarships to take two physical examinations during the year...
...needs but a perusal of the President's report to assure us that Harvard is in a very prosperous condition. Not only have the numbers of students in the different departments increased, but extensive additions have been made to the University accommodations. The Agassiz and Peabody Museums have been enlarged, a new dormitory built, and the Chemical Laboratory to some extent remodeled. A university such as ours, however, is constantly in need of improvements, and the most important of these have been touched upon in the report just published. Nearly all college endowments are encumbered with stipulations...
...assignment of rooms for the examination in Political Economy 1 today is as follows: Abbot to Bolton, U. 2; Brackett to Dadmun, U. 4; Dahlgren to Hayes, U. 16; Healy to Kelly, U. 19; Kielty to Wooman, Mass. 3. All others who have not handed in blue-books will report at Mass...
...adjourned meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College was held Wednesday forenoon at 50 State street, with Colonel Charles R. Codman in the chair. The time of meeting was taken up with a discussion of the report of the committee on the discipline and government of the college, the desire to speak on the subject leading to an adjournment of the board to Wednesday next. It was voted to concur in electing a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts for a year from January 1, and Messrs. William Gray, Henry J. Bigelow and Henry Lee were appointed...
...report that Sherrill of Yale had been dangerously ill at his home, and that he would never be able to run again, was unfounded. He has not been ill, and will in all probability run at Mott Haven in the spring...