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...stated meeting of the board of overseers yesterday forenoon the annual reports of the president and treasurer of the university for 1881-82 were presented. A synopsis of the more important points of the two reports follows. The president's report first refers to the loss by death or resignation of various officers of the university, and enumerated the appointments to various positions made during the year...
...increase of special students, and their changed status under the laws of the college, is noted. The passage of most interest in the report perhaps is concerning the recent move toward the regulation of college athletics. Through the appointment of a standing committee of three the faculty has for the first time a direct responsibility for the character and extent of our athletics. This has resulted in a set of regulations by this committee. "The influence of the committee has been successfully used to reduce the number of match games of ball and to confine them to Saturdays...
...progress of the Divinity School is described. As to its unsectarian character the report says...
After brief reference to the Scientific School, the Dental School, the Botanic Garden, and the Bussey Institution, the report spoke of the striking activity of the chemical laboratory and the operations of the library. Whenever the expenses of the college threaten to exceed its receipts the corporation turns to the library as the best place in which to reduce expenses, because library work can be postponed, while teaching cannot. What the library greatly needs is funds amounting to at least $400,000, the income of which could be applied to the cost of administration and service...
According to a recent report of the president of that institution, the resources of Cornell University are valued at $7,721,255.62. This, of course, does not include the money which may be won in prize-fights by students. - [Alleged witticism of a city daily...