Word: matter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...efforts to have the water turned on at the boat-house have been in vain. Will not the authorities attend to this matter...
BEFORE the arrangements for Class Day have been entirely made I wish to call the attention of the Committee to one matter, which caused a good deal of complaint last year, and which many hope to see changed this year: I mean the excluding of Freshmen from the exercises around the tree. The reason given for this exclusion last year was that there was not room enough for them, but upper-classmen who were there have told me that there would have been plenty of room. It seems to me that it is very hard to prevent the Freshman class...
...SWIFT JOHNSON, a young American, has gained a scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin, but being an alien his right to it is disputed, and the matter is to be argued before the University authorities...
...weeks ago the Boston Sunday Herald had a long article on the facilities for escaping from fire in the College buildings. To the surprise of those who have read previous articles of the Herald on Harvard matters, the facts that were stated were correct and the deductions just. The matter has often been mentioned in the past, and the placing of fire-escapes upon Matthews and Holyoke has been the result of the attention which has been drawn to the matter. We propose to continue letting people know of the danger in other buildings, until they too are made safe...
...college editors have recently been assaulted, one on the Yale News, the other on the Columbia Spectator. The Spectator has the following editorial in regard to the matter: "The editor in charge of the illustrating department has been forced by a regard for his personal safety (he is now suffering under the effects of a thrashing delivered in consequence of the last cartoon) to put in black and white that which until the publication of the said cartoon he had not deemed necessary; id est, that the faces that have appeared and shall appear in these pages have been...