Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Usually the first official statement in regard to the number of students in the University is made in the University Catalogue, which is issued in December. This year, however, unauthorized statements have been made in regard to the attendance so erroneous and so misleading that it has been thought best to give an official statement earlier than usual. It must, however, be borne in mind in comparing the figures given below that those showing the attendance last year have, with a few specified exceptions, been taken from the Catalogue, and that between this date and the date when the Catalogue...
...publish this morning the official statement of the changes from last year in the number of men in the different departments of the University. We are very glad to notice that in spite of hard times and other adverse influences, Harvard has this year a gain of one hundred and forty two men over last year. The gain last year over the preceding year was one hundred and ninety, so it is true that we are not now increasing as fast as we were last year. But, all things considered, this is very natural and we are to be congratulated...
...Boston newspaper recently announced that there had been a change in the management of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine. As this mis-statement has led to many inquiries, we are authorized to state that no change is contemplated. Mr. Wm. R. Thayer '81 is the editor, and Professor A. B. Hart '80 is the University editor of the Graduates' Magazine...
...meeting to be held in Sanders Theatre next week to promote the religious interests of the University is opportunely called. A clear statement of the organization and function of the different societies, if given under such circumstances, will add to their repute, dignity and influence. For this purpose alone, the meeting would be justified. Yet we understand that this is but a secondary object, and that the primary object is to point out the need of philanthropic enterprise on the part of the students, and to show the present possibility of effectual work of that kind. Both the need...
...first objection, that the committee has not submitted the plan for the sale of tickets to the class and that each man is therefore at liberty to ignore the regulations, can be dismissed simply with the statement that the class in electing its committee gives it the power to make such arrangements for Class Day as its own judgement and the experience of other Class Day committees show to be the most expedient...