Word: reports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Royce was unable to prepare an abstract of his lecture in time for publication in today's issue, and we are therefore obliged to defer our report until tomorrow's issue...
...recent anniversary of Johns Hopkins University, one of the chief features of the day was an address by Pres. Eliot. A full report of the address has not yet been printed. We print below an abstract of President Eliot's remarks. The subject of the address was "The Degree of Bachelor of Arts as an Evidence of Liberal Education," and its object was to advance that educational reform now in progress whereby the circle of "liberal studies" is to be widened so as to include, besides the Latin, Greek and mathematics, which were the staples of the sixteenth century curriculum...
...York Times has presented a criticism of President Eliot's theories as advanced above, which seems to us so much to the point, that we cannot forbear subjoining it to the report of the address itself: Even if the fact be as President Eliot states it, as to the proportion of liberally educated men in the professions, the Times says it is evident that the tendency is not toward keeping it true. The "public service" is in a condition so anomalous that it is not right to argue from it. But whereas a generation ago, college-bred men were...
Whereas, facts have been brought to our notice indicating a system of espionage which we deem cowardly, contemptible and degrading, to wit: First, the employment of servants to keep a close scrutiny on the students who come under their observation, and to report them to headquarters; second, rooms are unlocked and desks opened; third, that playing cards are secretly taken from the rooms; fourth, that officers of the college have been seen listening at doors and gaining admission to rooms under false pretence; fifth, that the night watchman has been seen peeping into lighted windows on the first floors; sixth...
...report from Princeton says that "Jim" Robinson, our old trainer, would not be allowed under the new regulations an appointment there as an athletic instructor...