Word: reports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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References: Report of Secretary of Treasury, 1887; Reports of Com. Internal Revenue, 1863-1886; President Cleveland's Annual Message, 1887; Speech by J. S. Covert, Cong. Rec., 1879, Vol. XIII, Part III, Ap. p. 199; Speech by Jos. Wheeler, Cong. Rec., Vol. XIV, Part...
...last annual report the president of Harvard College gives a very interesting and encouraging account of that institution's efforts to promote the teaching of the English language and English literature in the preparatory schools, by steadily increasing requirements in this respect as conditions of admission to college. It appears that, with the exception of Yale College, all the leading educational institutions of New England have united with Harvard in the movement, and have issued identical lists of the literary works with which freshmen are required to be familiar. So far as the purpose of this endeavor is concerned...
...economical as possible. Members of the board have tried the various boarding houses to compare the food served with that of the Hall, and their conclusion is, taking the price into consideration, that Memorial fare is as good as could possibly be expected. The committee will probably make a report upon the practicability of the proposed changes soon after the mid-years, and measures will be taken to carry out the resuggestions. The system in the Hall is so complicated that any "tinkering" takes effect on the price of board, the responsibility for which will rest on the directors...
...annual reports of the president and treasurer of Harvard College have reached this office, and a careful perusal of them reveals much interesting information. The first part of President Eliot's report describes the manner of entering college by the new method and the care taken by the college to introduce into the preparatory schools a study useful for training in observation and inductive reasoning. Requirements in elementary and advanced physics and advanced chemistry are now being tried with fair success...
...report of the Librarian is full of interesting evidences of the growth of the library...