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...Harvard Register for February will contain a complete reprint of President Eliot's Report...
...second annual dinner of the Yale Alumni in Boston, Wednesday night, President Eliot spoke in terms of warm praise of the sister University. Professor William Cook (a Yale Alumnus) also made a brief address...
...surprised and disappointed to find that President Eliot in his Annual Report makes no mention of the exigencies of the study of elocution at Harvard. We should think that he would have referred to the fact that last year the students paid privately for the heating of Sanders Theatre, although the College ought to furnish a proper room and proper heating, for those who take elocution as well as any other study. We also expected to learn the reasons for the poor accommodations given to the students of speaking this year. Can it be that President Eliot has no very...
...annual reports of President Eliot are always interesting; and his last one, which has just been given to the Overseers, contains several important suggestions and facts. The number of students at Harvard, and at almost all the other New England colleges, has not increased very perceptibly during the past five years, which is attributed to the financial depression following the crisis of 1873. But here other causes have also been at work, such as the check imposed by raising the standard of examination...
...kind enough to teach Sanskrit during a long time for - nothing. The same gentleman has still the charge of the Sanskrit instruction. He has been a member of the Faculty for a number of years long enough to entitle him to a Professor's chair according to President Eliot's own scheme of promotion. And yet when the time came to have a Professor of Sanskrit that instructor was passed over and a young man called to take the place. Here was the opportunity of verifying the principles of promotion laid down in the President's report, an opportunity...