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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last annual report of President Barnard of Columbia College, there is an urgent appeal to make that college more exclusively an institution for graduate instruction. President Barnard speaks very strongly in favor of the plan, even going so far as to say that "it would not be educationally a misfortune if Columbia College should cease to exist as a school for undergraduate students." With this end in view it is proposed to add to the library books particularly designed for postgraduate courses. Under the subject of the "Library" the report says...
...thanks of the students are due to the Athletic Committee of the Faculty for the pains and trouble they have taken to find out the falsity of the charges made against our athletic system. The report is a full, fair and interesting one and should be read by all. From the very beginning of the athletic controversy, we have expressed our confidence that the Faculty would consider the question fairly and impartially, and we are glad to see that our confidence was not misplaced. We trust that the recommendations of the Committee will be carried out, and again we thank...
President Barnard of Columbia, in his last annual report, has recommended the abolition of the undergraduate department of the college. His intention is to turn Columbia into a university composed of different schools, in which graduates of other colleges may pursue special lines of study. It is certainly true that the undergraduate department of Columbia has not progressed in proportion to the School of Mines and the School of Law, nor proportionately to the advances made by the undergraduate departments at Harvard and Yale. One reason given for this is that at Columbia the essence of college life, such...
...PALMER.CLASS OF '88.- The class secretary earnestly requests '88 men to fill out and deliver the class life blanks before leaving Cambridge. The completeness of the first secretary's report depends upon their receipt...
...board of overseers held a special meeting Wednesday, the Hon. Charles R. Codman in the chair. A committee consisting of Messrs. Green, Hoar, Lee, Lincoln and Peabody was appointed to present appropriate resolutions on the deaths of R. D. Smith and James Freeman Clarke, members of the board. The report of the faculty on athletics was presented by President Eliot, and laid upon the table. It was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their appointments as follows...