Word: reporters
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Eliot's annual report to the Overseers, for the year 1897-98, was issued last evening. As usual, it is a document not only of great interest and importance to the University but full of suggestions of a broad educational nature...
...annual report of Provost C. C. Harrison to the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for the year ending August 31, 1897, which has just been published, shows a year of advancement, extension, and general improvement in nearly every department. The provost, commenting on the fact that the university gave aid to the amount of over $50,000 to 331 students, says that the question of free tuition is a very serious one, and that scholarships should be applied for by the student only as the last resort...
...adopt, with slight modifications, the recommendation of the New York conference with regard to uniformity in entrance examinations for all colleges. The university has provided a competent physician who has supervision not only over the athletic teams but also over the health and work of all the students. The report dwells at length on the self government of the students, both in Houston Hall, where the daily attendance averages fifteen hundred, and in the dormitories, which have been occupied only a year. Large additions have been made to the botanical garden, the dental department, the museums, and to the library...
Through this organization we shall obtain information about all the material of which our Freshman class is composed. All members will report to the secretary with regard to the athletic qualifications of students entering Harvard from their neighborhood. This information will be systematically sifted and tabulated and the results turned over to the coaches and captains to be methodically used. Again, all captains and coaches in the future will have a definite body to whom they may appeal for advice with a certainty that none will be given which has been insufficiently considered, or which is likely to prove inconsistent...
...vote by mail on ballots provided for the purpose. The executive committee is given general powers to act for the association and to express its opinion on any question connected with the athletic interests of Harvard University. It may expel members after a hearing; it must submit an annual report...