Word: matter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have received several communications in regard to the reform in Class-Day elections. Some dissatisfaction is expressed that the progress has been so small, and it is maintained that an injustice, formerly practised by a few, now receives the sanction of the whole class. In regard to a matter of this kind agitation is the one thing necessary to produce good results. We cannot hope to arrive at the golden age by any short cut, and much may be considered as accomplished in turning the attention of students to this glaring abuse...
...Virginia University Magazine contains much matter, but very little mind. The Denison Collegian is chiefly remarkable for bad spelling. The Dartmouth has begun to copy its puffs. The Yale Lit. is intensely literary, filling its columns with notices of various books written by Swinburne, Whitman, and a certain Mr. Thackeray...
...such, it deserves every allowance. It would be difficult to state to what extent or in what variations the new system will change the old methods; in fact, the reformers admit they have no definite plan as to extent, but they think, as all who have examined into the matter will agree, that they have struck a rich vein which it will pay to work. The key-note to the new system seems to be, that law is a science; that, considered as a science, it consists of certain principles or doctrines; that by mastering these doctrines and the application...
...most able instruction is given in discovery alone,- a single division of equity, and one that is wholly unused, while a general outline of the subject is omitted. The central fault in the system is not that the theory is incorrect, but that its application, as a practical matter, to the school and the study of the law is not as yet a success, and a modification seems desirable...
...fair to suppose that something is the matter with its mind...