Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wise and beneficial thing to organize a dramatic club here at Harvard, in view of the success which has attended such organizations at Princeton, Yale and Columbia. Although no step has been as yet taken in this direction, we are convinced that the students only want to have the matter urged upon them, so we venture to repeat our exhortation of several weeks since. The good that such an association would do is obvious. In the first place it would lead to a better, more thorough knowledge of some of the famous old playwrights than the average Harvard student...
...Beta Kappa Society but also of Harvard University. One and all of the gentlemen to whom covert allusion is had were elected in accordance with a standard of scholarship which is recognized by Harvard University as the highest. If any American college cares to dictate in the matter, every courtesy will be extended for the purpose, but nothing more. The methods of Harvard are her own. Courtesy may degenerate into carping...
...triangular one, composed of the three leading base-ball colleges, was attractive. It gave promise of more interesting games, larger gate receipts, and a raising of the standard of the game generally. This feeling did not last until the mass meeting, however. The more men thought over the matter, the greater grew the obstacles. To be sure, several men who had been in base ball and foot-ball conventions (Captains Camp, Walden, Terry, Richards, Peters and Corwin) opposed the plan strongly on the ground that Yale would be one in three. But the cause of the opposition which grew...
...Yale insists on imposing conditions, there can be no doubt about the position Harvard should take. Under those circumstances we should withdraw at once, and refuse to play any games whatever with Yale until she should see fit to play with us on fair terms. Princeton undoubtedly, regards the matter in the same light. Let us then stand firm for the main idea of the original proposition and take no half-way measures...
...high repute. Several persons have suggested, according to the regulation, that this periodical be put on the shelves, but, for some reason best known to the authorities themselves, their suggestions have as yet been unheeded. It is to be hoped that some action will be taken on the matter, and that the much desired magazine will be supplied...