Word: matter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...understand, for instance, the financial crisis through which we have been passing, the question of international treaties, brought up by the extradition discussion, the relations of foreign powers during a war, the probable effect of the Eastern war on American industries, and, in a word, the whole matter of this Turko-Russian war. Most of this can be learned in some of the elective courses; but comparatively few of us are desirous or able to take the whole year's course in order to obtain the wished-for information; and to those who can take the electives, this instruction would...
...present number of the Packer Quarterly resembles its predecessors in matter and manner, with one exception; for even in its most sublime childishness, Packer never before equalled in atrocity the title of its opening essay (or review), "Charles Lamb (Lamb Hash...
...first, the Princetonian has been among the very best college papers. Confining itself strictly to subjects taken from college life, the paper has been bright, newsy, and, in tone, manly. There has been a tendency to assume a complete knowledge, on the part of the readers, of the matters discussed in the editorial columns, and the result is, that after reading a long editorial, one has not the faintest idea what is the subject under discussion. As cases in point we note "the treaty between the two Halls," and the new base-ball policy. It may be said that every...
...guess that's so," broke in Renardy. "And now, aged phrenologist, were I master of these spacious apartments, I should first entertain you with biscuits and sherry, and then request you to bestow your valuable presence elsewhere. As the matter stands, let me refer you to this gentleman, who has been eagerly waiting till you were at leisure and he could pour into your sympathetic ear something that's on his mind...
...bear the charges deserved by a few. It half a dozen young rascals 'cut up' and disgrace themselves, there is no end of complaints of 'Yale impiety' and 'Harvard indecency,' thus inculpating a thousand young men in the guilt of half a dozen. We have spoken of this matter before, but we wish we could again impress on the minds of the scandalized exposers of college corruption that the majority of us are real good fellows who are trying faithfully to smother all the vice that is in our midst; that our instructors are Christian gentlemen who are ably seconding...