Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot, in his recent report, complains of the absence of a comfortable reading-room and of safe means of lighting the present reading-room artificially. The need of such a reading room- spacious, well ventilated, well lighted, and open up to 10 p. m.- he says, is very urgent, and the best plan is to build a large room at the north-east corner of Weld Hall, at a very short distance from Gore Hall, so as not to darken the delivery room and the present reading-room, which is to be converted into a large stack, able...
...annual report submitted by Dean Langdell of the Law School, and published in President Eliot's recent report, contains many interesting facts, especially concerning the attendance at the school. About a dozen tables have been compiled, the first of which shows the attendance for the past eighteen years. The whole number of students has increased from...
Later in the evening the judiciary committee, having arranged the matters entrusted to it satisfactorily, made its report. The same rules of playing which were adopted by the intercollegiate league will be used by the association. The Spaulding ball also be used. Two very good men were secured for umpires when Jack Manning of Boston and D. J. O' Neill, of Holyoke, were selected. The schedule arranged for the season is as follows...
...President Eliot in his recent report stated that the college faculty was wrestling with this problem, and it is said that the prevailing opinion among the professors in all departments of the university is favorable to an abbreviation of the college course from four years to three. It has also been pointed out that the prospective financial loss of a quarter of the tuition fees, which would follow if the course is reduced by one year, is the most serious bar to early and courageous action...
...recent Day of Prayer for colleges, at Princeton a carefully prepared report was submitted in regard to the proportion of men in that college who are looking forward to entering the ministry as their life work after graduation. It is seen from the report that the proportion of men now purposing to devote themselves to the ministry is much smaller than the average of former years. The year in which was the highest per cent. of men entering the ministry was 1871 when it is recorded that 34 per cent. of the whole number of men in college entered...