Word: reports
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot's annual report for the year 1903-04 is published today. With the Treasurer's statement and the numerous departmental reports it makes a volume of 465 pages, the first fifty-two of which are written by the President himself. Three matters touched upon by President Eliot are current subjects of intense interest. These are the present financial condition of the University, the greater and lesser evils of the game of football, and the proposed alliance between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...well as professorships. Gifts ranging from $12,500 to $125,000 could thus be most advantageously applied. Two million, five hundred thousand dollars is named by the President as a moderate estimate for the accomplishment of the reasonable objects now plainly in view for the College proper. His report closes with the words, "The oldest, the most essential and the most beloved department of Harvard University now needs the prompt assistance of its alumni and friends...
Four pages of the report are devoted to a severe but discriminating arraignment of the game of football. President Eliot declares it is time that the public should understand and take into earnest consideration the objections to this game. As the lesser objections he mentions extreme publicity, the large proportion of injuries, the absorption of the undergraduate mind in the subject for two months and the disproportionate exaltation of the football hero in the college world. "The football hero," he says, "is useful in a society of young men if he illustrates generous strength and leads a clean life...
...report of Professor H. S. White as Chairman of the Athletic Committee removes a well-nigh universal apprehension regarding the expense of admission to athletic contests by pointing out that the average cost of admission to a game for a holder of a Harvard Athletic Association annual ticket is about twelve cents. Nevertheless Professor White States that the committee hopes that the charge for admission to games may be reduced even further...
...held a number of prominent government offices in France. Between the years 1885 and 1900 he was successively. Minister to Servia, and to Sweden, and President General at Tunis. In 1900 he retired to private life with the title of ambassador. For ten years M. Millet has made the report of the United States Congress in the "Annuaire de la Legislation Etrangere." He is well known as an authority on colonial matters and is the author of a number of works on this subject, among which are: "La France Provinciale," "Souvenirs des Balkans," "La Serbie Expansion de la France...