Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Only two of Columbia's sports have been paying propositions so far this year, according to a partial report submitted by the graduate manager to the athletic association. In spite of a very heavy initial expense accompanying the return of football to Columbia last year, the gridiron game proved profitable, although the entire cost of erecting stands, fences, and of altering the playing field, were charged against the season's account. The other profitable sport is rifle shooting, adopted again this year after two years of suspension...
...poorest teams in the history of basketball on Morningside Heights the reason for the loss is ascribed to a larger number of memberships in the athletic association, entitling each member to free admittance to all games, rather than to smaller crowds at the games. The report is not the complete one for the year. It covers only the period to date. By the end of the baseball season that sport will have netted a considerable sum, although at present there is a deficit, due to the cancellation of several important games because of unfavorable weather conditions...
Acting on the report submitted by the Committee on the Use of English by Students, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has passed the following resolutions...
...accordance with the resolutions creating the committee, instructors have been requested to report "all students whose use of English has been unsatisfactory, whether in the matter of clear and orderly thought or in the details of expression." Up to the present date, 235 students have been reported, distributed as follows: Regular undergraduates, 195 Unclassified undergraduates, 33 Students out of course, 2 Special student, 1 Graduate students...
...college men concerning the progress of the great war. A recent issue of the Independent Magazine makes this statement: "We fear that they have been reading the war news, but have made no effort to understand it." Between the conflicting fires of an English official communication, a Berlin official report, and a French communique, it takes more than an intelligent person to read the news of a single engagement and understand which forces gained the advantage. After a series of attempts to untangle the contradictory statements, the normal person is satisfied to glance at the headlines and trust that...