Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some arrangement of this nature has long been needed here. It is a matter of universal belief that great extravagance is unavoidable in the present manner of conducting the expenditures of the various athletic teams. Therefore the proposition, we hope, will be accepted immediately by the other three organizations whose approval is necessary...
...another column we reprint part of an editorial which appeared in the Yale News yesterday. It is evident that Yale men are dissatisfied with the treatment which they have received at the hands of our freshmen. They understand that the matter has not been settled as yet, and are impatient for some final action. It is plain, however, that the Yale challenge was acted upon decisively by Ninety and as far as technicalities are concerned nothing has been done of which Yale can justly complain. Ninety has voted to row the Yale freshmen on the Charles...
...ball convention, have assumed a more manly and straightforward spirit. Why should there be an exception in the case of rowing? The Yale freshmen do not feel that they are asking anything unreasonable. In view of all this, we cannot but think that the Harvard freshmen will decide this matter with all the fairness which characterizes the sober second thought of intelligent college...
...proposition of Harvard and Princeton to withdraw from the inter-collegiate foot-ball league and form a league composed of Yale, Harvard and Princeton, does not meet with much favor at Yale. Yale will probably call a meeting soon and discuss the matter...
...would respectfully call the attention of the authorities who preside over the college yard to a little matter which is under their jurisdiction. We wish to enter an emphatic protest against the water which the pump near Matthews supplies to thirsty students. This water is, and has been for a long time, totally unfit to drink. We have been told on good authority that the water has been analyzed and found to contain impurities to a large amount. Now whatever the cause of this pollution is, it seems to us that the water ought not to remain in this condition...