Word: statement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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While the two subjects already mentioned are perhaps the most striking features of the report, President Eliot's admirable statement of the relation of the University and the preparatory schools is, broadly speaking, the most important part. After speaking of the changes which have recently taken place in the preparatory schools, the diversity of their equipment, and the improvement in the methods of instruction in other than the old classical subjects, the President continues...
...statement concerning the sale of class crew shells was a general one, I want to say that as far as it applied to last year's senior crew it showed absolute ignorance as to the management...
...only motive for subscribing for the magazine were loyalty to it as a Harvard publication little could be said in behalf of the editors, worthy though that motive undoubtedly is. But the high standard which the Graduates' Magazine has maintained, and the fact that it furnishes an accurate statement of college doings difficult for graduates to obtain in such convenient form elsewhere, are practical reasons why its circulation should be larger. The magazine has certainly earned much greater support than it receives at present...
...editorial the frank statement is made that "The Advocate and the Monthly certainly are not so crude as the periodicals" of some of the smaller " 'universities,' but they are not one iota more accurate than these periodicals in their attempt to represent the literary standard which one has a right to expect of the college...
President Ely has in preparation a pamphlet which will give a complete account of the history of the Union with a statement of its principles and methods. There will be four leading articles on the following subjects: "The Origin of the Union." by Professor Peabody; "The Union and the University," by G. L. Paine '96; "The Union and the Workingman," by James A. Stinson of the Riverside Press, and "The Principles and Methods of the Union," by President Ely. The publication, which is about forty pages long, will also contain pictures of officers and teachers and exterior and interior views...