Word: matter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard Index," containing the usual matter of previous copies, with a few novel features, however, will be ready about the 15th. It will have two styles of binding, one similar to that of last year, the other in leatherette of crimson color...
...impression it has produced on the instructor, whether he considers it good, bad or indifferent. Now we have no fault to find with the present instructor, for he does all that anybody in his position could do, but we wish to call the attention of the Faculty to this matter, and ask them whether they do not think it would be worth while to have an instructor for forensics alone, instead of giving them to a professor who has plenty to do without them? Do they think it enough to require a certain number of forensics to be written, without...
...well for Cornell and Columbia to accuse Yale and Harvard of cowardice, and if it affords them innocent amusement, it assuredly has no effect upon us. All their talk will not make Harvard and Yale feel anything but that a race with Cornell and Columbia is a very secondary matter, and that their own annual race is, to them at least, the most important race they can row. With Columbia, Cornell, and other colleges we have no quarrel, and the losing or winning of a race with them is a matter of almost perfect indifference to this University at least...
...appointed for the trial, but the weather was stormy and the track heavy. At a meeting of the H. A. A. it was voted that the cup should be competed for only on some regular field-day of the Association. This step was taken as a matter of economy, as it is necessary to specially prepare the track for every race, and this preparation is very expensive...
...matter of scholarships, Harvard would do well to imitate Oxford. All of these - more than 700 in number and bringing in an aggregate of pound 60,000 annually - are bestowed for knowledge alone, and are sought as earnestly by the sons of the wealthy as by the poor. They average about pound 65 a year. This is one example of the determination at Oxford to draw no line between rich and poor. It has its swells and its snobs, but whatever they may import in that way is absolutely unrecognized by university and college law and administration...