Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...report of Mr. Winsor, librarian of the University Library, shows that the accessions to the library during the past year have amounted to 22,370 volumes. This makes a total of 431,298 cnntents of the possession of the University, and if unbound pamphlets be included (as is the case in counting the volumes in many European libraries) the total number is 762,850. Even this is not a fair test of comparison with the old world libraries, for often the number of titles in bound volumes of collected pamphlets, and the different specifications in collections of patent records...
...report of the Dean of the Medical Faculty calls attention to the diminiation of the size of the entering class. This falling off in numbers had been expected at the beginning of the last academic year when the new four years' course of instruction went into effect, but the entering class was the largest on record, so that the falling off in the numbers of this year's class was discouraging but easily to be accounted for by the prevailing financial depression...
Some interesting facts may be gleaned from the last annual report of the board of directors charged with the care of Girard College. Changes which the founder would not have contemplated have been introduced and modern appliances such as he and his generation never dreamed of are now in daily use. The report says: "The ancient curriculum of the college, admirable, perhaps, in the early history of the institution, with less than five hundred scholars, but without many of the plans and appliances which modern modes of thought and of action make necessary for efficient work in the school-room...
...provision in the founder's will that boys of a certain grade shall be "bound out" is apparently almost a dead letter, as according to the report only one was indentured as an apprentice, but 139 were granted permission to leave in order to accept employment...
...Chapel what promises to be a very interesting meeting held under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. and the St. Paul's Society. Recently a convention of the Student Volunteer Movement was held at Detroit to which the societies sent delegates who will now make their formal report of the convention. Besides these two all the other religious societies in college have received invitations to be present. In addition all members of the faculty and students interested in missionary work are invited to attend...