Word: matter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...secure such a change would require a well-signed petition to the Faculty, or some other decided expression of opinion from a majority of the students. To such a plea the Faculty would certainly yield, since this is a matter that concerns the students only...
...much practice as possible before going again to Saratoga. And competing with men of about equal ability, such as they are likely to meet at the New York Club, would be of great advantage. We hope that the men who enter in our approaching meeting will consider this matter carefully, for much good might result from it. We print in full the information sent...
...expression of the Editors' opinion that the likenesses of the members of the Faculty, which have begun to appear in the Lampoon, are in bad taste. Of course it must be admitted that there is room for difference of opinion on such a point, and my view of the matter differs from theirs. If the likenesses were grotesque burlesques of the features represented, or if the texts placed under the pictures could in any way give offence to the persons whose faces are drawn, I can understand very well that objections might be made on the score of taste...
SINCE we last spoke of the affairs of the Senior Class, continued efforts have been made to secure a definite settlement of the disputed points. The committee of graduates, to whom the matter was referred for advice, recommended a compromise which made it necessary, after the nature of compromises, for each one of the four factions to resign something that each had cherished. When the representatives who had met the committee laid the proposed compromise before the several bodies they represented, there arose questions of what was understood and what was implied, which left the exact result of the compromise...
Without claiming infallibility in the matter of good taste in pronunciation, I am inclined to think that the New-Englander makes less culpable divergences from the accepted standard of usage than either of the first two classes, though, be it confessed, the Yankee occasionally falls into an opposite error of making the a too broad, the o too confined, and the r utterly inaudible. In his mouth won't, the contraction for will not, becomes wunt. He is apt to call law lor, America Americar, etc., evidently to atone for his almost universal slight to the r in the middle...