Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Close, the President of the Cambridge University Boat Club, telegraphed on Saturday to the New York Herald office that it will be impossible for the University to send a crew to compete at the race in July. The business of the Oxford Club we may be able to report next week...
...officers may be, it is true, overwhelmed by complaints which are poured into their ears by individuals, but in this way the opinion of the majority cannot be ascertained, and no means are provided for the officers to report to us the difficulties that they have to encounter, or to show how impossible it is to satisfy every want. Unless the opinion of the majority is allowed to be clearly expressed, each man thinks that he is sustained in his possibly absurd complaint by the whole Association, and will never be satisfied till his complaint is attended...
...shall fall. Defects may be due to the negligence of officers in not keeping the steward up to the mark, or to the total incapacity of a steward, who, if secure of the Corporation, may neglect the order of those who are really his employers. Neither officers nor steward report to the Association, nor are the proceedings of the Board of Directors made public, in order that we may judge how far each member of that Board deserves our confidence or our censure. And even if it is clearly shown that a director is inefficient, there...
...these writers are so devoid of sense as not to know that such publications are very distasteful to students, they should be made aware of the fact by a more open expression of disapprobation, and by the exclusion of them from their college scenes and pleasures, of which no report at all is preferable to a travesty...
...with water from top to bottom, and, after three hours' work, the flames are extinguished. The manner in which the fire department did its work has been criticised, - too severely, undoubtedly, and yet not altogether unjustly. We shall not enter into a discussion of the matter, for in our report of the fire we have given sufficient facts to enable every one to form his own opinion. The firemen worked with alacrity and with unbounded pluck, but they showed great need, particularly at first, of some one able to give directions. It has been often said that, in case...