Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...President Eliot's annual report, the remarks on the conduct of intercollegiate sports, though brief, are full of valuable suggestions. After pointing out "the evils of overtraining and excessive exertion" and the defects in the management of sports and their remedies, the President says: "It must be perceived and admitted that training which goes beyond pleasurable exercise is worse than useless, and that so-called sports which require a dull and dreaded routine of hardships and suffering in preparation for a few exciting crises, are not worth what they cost. They pervert even courage and self-sacrifice, because these high...
President Eliot's Annual Report suggests most forcibly the great need of additional endowments to the University's material resources "if the primacy of Harvard University among American institutions of education is to be maintained. As the report points out the total of gifts and bequests in the last three years was something above half a million, while "during the same period at least five American universities, all situated outside of New England, received much larger additions to their endowments." The enormous single gifts to Columbia and the youthful but rich University of Chicago throw the benefactions to Harvard into...
LACROSSE TEAM.- All candidates for the lacrosse team report at the Gymnasium at 3.30 today...
...President's report for 1895-96 to the Board of Overseers, with the reports of the various departments and the Treasurer of the University was published yesterday. After mentioning the deaths and services to the University of Martin Brimmer, Josiah Dwight Whitney, Francis James Child, Daniel Denison Slade, and Eliot Folger Rogers, the President directs his attention to the Graduate School. Since 1871, when the Graduate School was founded, the degrees of Ph. D. and S. D. have been conferred upon graduates of other universities only after a residence at Harvard of two and three years respectively. On March...
...Report of Dean Briggs.In the annual report of the Dean, considerable attention is given to the discussion of the struggle which has been made to suppress dishonesty in written work. He recites the attempt made to stop such dishonesty two years ago and the failure of that attempt. Dean Briggs thinks that the reason for this state of College morals is found in the double standard,-a shifting for the convenience of the moment, from the character of a responsible man to the character of an irresponsible boy. "The administrative officers," says he, "accept without question a student's word...