Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suppose that the corporation were in college when few students used the library. Now the number has increased, as President Eliot says with pride in his report, to 90 per cent. Argument, therefore, from such precedent as the corporation can furnish is not satisfactory...
...only 57 per cent of the Harvard undergraduates used the library, but now nearly 90 per cent avail themselves of his privileges. This statement from President Elliot's report, shows two things: one, that 10 years ago there must have been a sad lack of at least one branch of culture; the other, that it is now popular at Harvard to be known as a reading man. - Boston Record...
...desire to use the discretion here given, you are requested to report to the Secretary, before February 1, what exceptions you wish to be made in the application of the above rules...
...speedy arrangement of the details, each educator, clergyman, journalist, matron or fraternity chaplain herewith furnished with a copy of the book is requested to send to the undersigned, before February, any pertinent suggestions; and (having meanwhile invited attention of his or her young friends to the matter) to report approximately how many may probably enter the lists...
...salient point in the president's report which appears to day, is the evidence afforded of Harvard's steady advancement in size and matter of advantages. Not a year passes in which some new building, some new department of learning or added opportunity for study does not testify to the vitality and growth of the college. The past year is not wanting in such additions. New and enlarged courses have been added to the curriculum of the law and medical schools; the new divinity hall and library is fast approaching completion; the courses in the college proper have been enlarged...