Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...characteristic features of President Eliot's report compel the attention of the reader: First, his careful study of a general educational problem-the proper adjustment of the curricula of secondary schools; and secondly, his suggestion of many very interesting questions which come up in the administration of the University itself. One of the most interesting things which he discusses is the group of courses most largely taken by students in the College under the existing elective system. The President does not tell us just where he draws the line between the larger and smaller classes, but he gives...
...view of recent utterances against the Harvard system. He shows clearly that the committee has been the direct cause, against much opposition, of raising the amateur standing and of eliminating professionalism. He recognizes that through the committee the marked abuses, which he attacked so severely in his last report, have been largely remedied. The reader infers that though President Eliot probably retains his personal dislike for football he is not disappointed in the use which the Athletic Committee has made of the trust which the Corporation and Overseers voted to continue to them...
...report touches many other matters of interest and importance, one of them being the encouragement of "migration" in graduate study. On the whole it is an important document and well worth careful reading in its bearings on matters of general, educational, as well as of local, University interests...
Following this discussion the Report contains interesting figures concerning the numbers of students coming from different schools and colleges from the year 1871 to the year 1895; also a table showing the average age of the entering classes since...
...President's report to the Board of Overseers for 1894-95, including the reports from the heads of the different departments of the University and the statement of the Treasurer, was published yesterday. In general the Report is the same in form as those of previous years, but each year the growth of the University necessitates the addition of more pages. The present Report contains thirty-five pages more than that of last year...