Word: matter
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...system of giving checks for hats and coats which has just been introduced at the Library is a much-needed improvement. It is a matter of regret that such a system should be needed, but if persons who visit the Library will insist on stealing hats and coats, it is better that something should be done to prevent them. Last Saturday afternoon some individual coolly walked off with two fifty-dollar overcoats; how he did it is a mystery, as he must have passed in full view of the attendant at the desk and all the persons in that part...
...treated by President Eliot in his late Report in a reasonable and comprehensive spirit, which - as the common phrase goes - leaves little to be desired. That something, nevertheless, remains unsaid, is the opinion of thoughtful persons whose attention has been directed to this subject. For while it is a matter for congratulation that poverty, when it can be confessed and proved, need not bar Harvard to a fairly good scholar, it is still to be regretted that necessitous parties, who are unwilling to proclaim their condition, are tempted to seek the cheaper colleges. And it is not necessarily a false...
...hear that we had challenged Harvard to a race next summer, and that a meeting had been called to ratify the challenge. One would naturally suppose that the students who bear the expense, and without whose money the race could not be accomplished, would have been consulted in the matter before the challenge was sent; but such a proceeding would not have been in accordance with the dignity which the Directors had assumed, and therefore the students were tossed a sop, in the shape of a chance to ratify the challenge when it was too late to do anything else...
...also goes over the matter of the withdrawal of the challenge and the reasons therefor, and repeats the charge of unfairness against Harvard, The following extract shows that even at Cornell there are, or at least were, two opinions about the matter...
...received by all present, and evoked such a general desire to adopt the necessary measures to accomplish it, that a Committee was appointed to communicate, through the metropolitan press and other mediums, with the boating organizations of different countries, in order that the views of Rowers generally upon the matter may be ascertained prior to taking definite action...