Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made elective and the requirement of Greek at entrance abolished. This decrease in attendance at the Lawrence school has been thought by some to mean a discouragement of science teaching at Cambridge, - but the reverse is the case. In view of these altered relations, President Eliot, in his report, recommends its discontinuance as a separate organization, and that the college faculty be interested with the power of recommending students for the degree of S. B. and C. E. The memory of the Lawrences will still be commemorated in the names, of certain professorships, and the work which they inaugurated will...
Permit me through your columns to make a brief report of the finances of the Boat Club...
...resolved at the meeting that the following report be printed simultaneously Monday morning in the Yale News, Princetonian and CRIMSON; although mailed from New York on Saturday evening by special delivery, we did not receive it until nine this morning; we regret that we were obliged to delay its publication a day in consequence...
...last report President Eliot mentions among other needs of the university a new boat-house; and now as this need has been recognized by the college authorities, there is good reason to hope that a new boat-house will soon be built. The old house, though it satisfies in a way the wants of the members of the boat club and the various crews, is still far from complete. The shower-baths, dressing-rooms, etc., are not in a good condition, as would be expected in the boat-house of Harvard University. Seeing as we do wherein the old house...
...interesting paragraph of the report relates to the "list of publications of Harvard university and its officers, 1880-1885. "In this list, about three-quarters of the 1,813 entries relate to science, including in that term medicine. Very inaccurate estimates of the relative activity in literary and scientific publications of some leading American universities having of late years obtained currency, and perhaps credit, through the public press, it is permissible to remark in the interests of truth, that it would be discreditable indeed to Harvard university - old and well-equipped as it is - if any other American institution could...