Word: matter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Hollis 3, between 2 and 4 P. M., and take certificates of membership. The fee remains at two dollars. It is desirable that those who have not already paid should do so immediately, that the Directors may be enabled to provide such an amount and variety of reading matter as is demanded by the needs of the Association and the position of our University...
DEAR SIRS, - In the last number of your paper, and in fact for some time past, I have noticed several articles suggesting the idea of forming a Chess Club, but beyond this there seems to have been no active undertaking in the matter. From my own experience, and from the experience of those who have been members of the prominent chess-clubs in this country, I should judge that the forming of a club, and keeping the members interested in its proceedings, was a thing easily undertaken, and on account of the interest that has been lately manifest, it appears...
...matter of dark entries is becoming serious, and demands the attention of the College authorities. Now, when it becomes dark so early, the dormitory entries need lights much earlier; yet we are left to grope and stumble through them till long after every breakneck combination of circumstances has been repeatedly stumbled over, and profanity has become fashionable. We look for a change for the better in this matter, and trust that it will not have to be effected through the College circumlocution office...
...address an invitation for such contributions as the authors are willing to be judged by. The advantage that those have who are willing to write in Freshman year is very marked, and the class of Seventy-eight have shown their appreciation of it. A word in regard to the matter of contributions. It should be such as is of real interest to both writer and reader; old "compositions" and essays on "Habit," "Principle," and what not, - of great truth, no doubt, but of no special interest nor appropriateness to the time, - are better kept for the author's own private...
...correction of mistakes and abuses. In short, - not to go into a detailed consideration of points which will naturally suggest themselves to any who had to do with the regatta of 1874, - nothing can be lost, but much gained, by an early convention, and we therefore recommend the matter to the consideration of the members of the Association...