Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...publish to-day a further communication in regard to the Williams matter. As for the professionalism charged, nothing can be asserted definitely until the meeting of the judiciary committee of the Intercollegiate Base-Ball Association takes place, when the question will be passed upon and a decision reached. If the affidavits made by the persons concerned are accepted, there will remain nothing more to be said, for the college world must then consider the question settled...
...number of the "Atlantic Monthly" contains a more than usual amount of good reading matter, which is saved from making the number heavy by the variety of subjects treated. The number opens with a dialect story of country life by Sarah Orne Jewett. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's poem upon Napoleon III., entitled "The Last Caesar," a reverie in the Tuileries gardens, is one of the strongest of his later productions. Mr. William Chauncey Langdon contributes a sketch of Marco Minghetti, the lately deceased Italian patriot. Clinton Scollard's poem, "The Maenads" is carefully written, but does not have the spontaneity...
...bankrupt two, because the duplication of expenses was not met by a corresponding duplication of traffic. Thus it was a hazardous thing for private enterprise to institute a parallel line. In Europe, where private funds are not forthcoming to carry on a needed competing line, the government takes the matter into its hands and builds a rival road. Competition in railroading is different from that in other lines of business. In the case of a store, if the proprietor reduces the prices on his goods so far as to lose money on them, he gets more trade, loses more money...
...telegram of October 11th, by your correspondent, has no bearing on the matter. It was sent in answer to our asking for some later date and dispatched after we heard of the arrangement with Yale...
...become one of the great college questions. It is well worth the reading, for though the subject that caused its publication has little interest to us, yet the question therein shown in so clear a light concerns us as nearly as it ever can Dickinson College. To put the matter in its plainest light it is this: A student finds himself in difficulty, a difficulty which has nothing to do with his studies. The faculty take up the case and try to inform themselves accurately as to the student's position, in order to judge him. This has happened enough...