Word: reports
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Class Day and Commencement were held last June in the Chapel instead of in the church. Then disappeared the last trace of the official connection between the College and the First Parish, - a connection which had been maintained in various forms for more than two hundred years." - President's Report...
...NEXT year the John Thornton Kirkland Fellowship, founded by Hon. George Bancroft, will be available for the first time." - President's Report...
...outside reader, the President's Report is interesting as showing what has already been done in College, and what is its present condition; the undergraduate turns with more interest to those suggestions of future changes which he is sure will, in most cases, be realized. It is gratifying, therefore, to find that one of the first things noticed is the unsatisfactory condition of the Gymnasium and its inadequacy to the wants of the University. The remedy proposed, though the best perhaps that is available, is, however, a sorry one. "As the University has plenty of unoccupied land, it would...
...FATHER" who was reading the report of some college meeting, in which the names of many undergraduates and their classes were given, - Mr. - '74, Mr. - '75, etc., - asked his son how it was that so many of the students seemed to occupy the same room...
...literary societies, it is neither uninteresting nor profitless to ascertain how much importance is attached to these arts in foreign universities, and to examine the success of undergraduate clubs formed for the purpose of fostering them. The Oxford Union Society is an organization of this character, and the report of the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in the London Times, of October 23, affords good evidence of its success, and shows how prized among Englishmen is the power to express their thoughts with ease and clearness, whatever be the number of listeners...