Word: reports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report of the committees on special students, on the Morgan professorship, and on the quinquennial catalogue were presented and laid on the table. Mr. Smith presented the following, which was adopted...
...Nation, in addition to the article which we recently published, discusses the refusal of the prayer petition in connection with President Eliot's report. In this report, it will be remembered, the president says that in studies and discipline, a broad, distinctly University policy has been followed both towards teachers and students. The startling manner in which this policy is sometimes deserted, is thus shown by the Nation...
...recent decision of the President and Fellows in regard to voluntary attendance at prayers, shows that this policy still lacks something of completeness; and we hope that the next annual report will be devoted to an historical review of the progress in religious discipline for sixty years-say from 1826, when the study of Hebrew, from being prescribed, became optional. This seems already necessary in order to justify an alarming innovation in the Divinity School, where also the pxan of freedom is sounded by President Eliot. The Dean of the school calls special attention to the fact that "marks...
...debt left from last year was larger than was shown in the report on October 3rd, '84, owing to the fact that several large bills were presented after the publication of the report. The treasurer orders no supplies himself, so that these debts were contracted without his knowledge...
...report on the University library, Mr. Justin Winsor describes the method by which books are obtained from the library by students from the Annex, and at the same time, explains what has puzzled so many students, why Annex students are never seen drawing out books. Mr. Winsor says: "A pass book, containing titles of books wished for, is sent by a messenger to Gore Hall twice a day. Many of the titles thus presented have all the defects of inexactness and ambiguity which come from inexperience in using titles, and, as it devolves upon the library attendants to attach shelf...