Word: matter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...previous years. Much credit is due the instructors who have brought about this change, and have labored to make the contest something more than the dreary affair it has usually been. We wish, now, to urge upon all students the importance of attending it. Prize speaking is a matter of college interest, and should attract more than a handful of listeners. In other colleges it has a dignity and importance which it must lack here as long as empty benches are the only audience and no one cares to know who wins. It is to be hoped that Sanders Theatre...
...Corporation of the University, believing that some abuses have crept into the celebration of Commencement Day, has recently appointed a Committee to investigate the matter, and report such remedy as they think advisable...
...letter in the last Advocate on the proposed reduction of the marks obtained at the Anticipatory Examination in Rhetoric did not seem to me to express strongly enough the feeling in regard to this matter...
...SAGACIOUS Junior who takes an elective in Chemistry, on presenting a package marked "Soap," at the post-office the other day, was informed that soap was not transmissible by mail. He consulted the United States Postage Laws, and discovered that "chemicals, hard, and non-explosive," are included in mail matter, so he marked his package, "sodic sterate, hard, non-explosive," and presented it to the post-office clerk. It is unnecessary to add that no questions were asked, and that the package reached its destination...
...answer to this communication has been received from New Haven, and the Yale Navy apparently have taken no action in the matter; but it is certainly a desirable thing to have a single-scull race for the championship of the two colleges, and there could be no better time for it than the week of the University race at New London. If any decision in this matter is to be reached this summer it ought to be made at once, to enable the contestants to make the necessary preparations. As Mr. Livingston has taken the first step, it is only...