Word: matter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...This matter of a college education," said she, "is getting to be overdone. Your grandfather graduated at Harvard when he was nineteen; your father was twenty-one; you will be twenty three or four; and so it goes on. At this rate your grandchildren, if you have any," - "Cela depend," I murmured gently, but she did not hear it, - "will be thirty-five before they are ready to enter any profession, and all the while their chances of success will be growing poorer...
...more entertaining than they have been for several years. The Index is designed for the use of those students - and their number is large - who wish to have at hand the College club and society lists, and a full record of the athletics of the previous year. The matter, therefore, is always good; but we have some complaint as regards the manner. In the first place, the order which brings the Natural History Society between the Hasty Pudding Club and the Pi Eta, and which places the Law School clubs among college associations is highly objectionable. Again, the record...
...that extra "forty winks" on the only morning whose slumberous stillness is unbroken by either first or second bell, and considering that all private clubs have late breakfasts on Sunday, it seems strange that the Board have not been sooner compelled, by complaints and discussions of the matter among the members, to take this action. However, late as it comes, we welcome the change; everything that makes boarding at Commons more convenient is a step in the right direction. Apropos of the above, it is rumored that several gentlemen lost their breakfasts last Sunday, owing to ignorance of the change...
...always been an open question; and now, when the reasons are known which caused Harvard to decline it (the conditions which Columbia felt that the acceptance of her challenge for last year had given her strength to insist upon), the action of the Executive Committee in settling the matter as they have will, we think, meet general approval...
...HAVE often gone to the Library to get certain books that are put aside for reference; but somehow or other these books are never to be found. I thought it strange that no matter at what hour of the day I might come, some studious individual had the start...