Word: reports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Annual Report President Eliot has made a very forcible answer to those who claim that the elective system allows men so to specialize their work that they lose "the general cultivation and openness of mind which may reasonably be expected in educated men." By tables giving the studies of each member of the classes of 1884 and 1885, he shows just what amount of specialization there has been. Accordingly, though in 1884 sixty-eight men specialized enough for honors, and thirty in 1885, nevertheless in the cases of only four in '84 and eight in '85 was there extreme concentration...
...cribbing question by the Conference Committee is interpreted by the Acta Columbiana in a manner that does gross injustice to the committee. Our contemporary says: "The Conference Committee at that college, in view of the cheating indulged in at the semi-annual examinations this year, has submitted a report to the faculty recommending that the penalty for cribbing be expulsion from the college instead of suspension." What the Conference Committee has done is this. Its members have recommended that the regulation regarding cribbing in the published rules, which prescribes suspension or other penalty judged proper by the faculty for cribbing...
Saturday's Herald contained a column and a half report of Mr. Herkomer's lecture here Friday evening...
...committee reported that the album containing the English letters which accompanied the present of copies of the Longfellow bust placed in Westminster Abbey be presented the Maine Historical Society at Portland. The report was accepted, after which a vote was adopted that the album be retained by the association...
...report of the treasurer of the Longfellow Memorial Association shows that at the last annual meeting, the fund of the association contributed for the erection of a monument and the laying out of a park, amounted to $12,876.50. Since last year, $313.25 has been contributed. Including the interest of the fund ($318.36), the total amount of the fund is $13,508.11. Of this amount, $12,950 has been invested in the purchase of Cambridge city bonds, $57.66 used for expenses, and the balance, $555.58 deposited in a bank...