Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...preparations necessary for successful research are, a reasonable amount of money, good manners, a knowledge of modern Greek and an idea of the Eastern countries. In these countries the monks of the Greek Church are, contrary to common report, bright and intelligent, and know much about the manuscripts in their charge...
...functions of the Medical Visitor seem to be vaguely understood and it may be well to make them definite. So far as possible all students in Cambridge not living at home are visited immediately upon receiving a report of absence caused by illness. The object of this visitation is to see that the student receives proper medical care, to guard against the spread of contagious disease, and incidentally to give such advice regarding general habits as is desired or necessary. Ordinarily the medical treatment is not undertaken, but cases are referred to their regular physicians. The reports are taken from...
...position on the football question which President Eliot took in his annual report is not strengthened by the Nation's endorsement, which we quote in another column. There is a very suggestive difference in the respective attitudes of President Eliot and the Nation. From beginning to end of President Eliot's severe arraignment of the game of football as it is now played, there is nothing said in criticism of the game itself to which any reasonable man can take exception. It is a forcible statement of valid objections to the game. His failure to mention the beneficial features...
...Nation for February 7 says editorially of President Eliot's recent remarks about football in his annual report...
...President Eliot's characterization of intercollegiate football, in his annual report, is the utterance of a man who refuses to surrender either his reason or his responsibility to a popular and passing craze. Out of the mouths of the apologists for the game, he condemns it. They would restrain on the day of the great match the brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating through three months of training by "employing more men to watch the players," so as to prevent foul and vicious playing. What sane man can dispute President Eliot's conclusion that "a game which needs...