Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...help has a regular symposium at or about ten. We think, though they are colored, they are worthy of better treatment, since a laborer is worthy of his hire. What is said of one meal, can be truly said of all. We trust the association will see to that matter and help those poor fellows...
...following committees have the matter of the centennial celebration at Columbia College in charge and are now formulating plans to make the celebration an exceedingly interesting occasion: Committee of trustees, President F. A. P. Barnard, Hamilton Fish, the Rev. Morgan Dix, S. T. D., Joseph W. Harper, Jr., Seth Dow and Prof. J. Howard Van Amringe, secretary. Associated with this committee are Mr. Frederic R. Coudert, from the Alumni Association of the School of Arts; Mr. F. A. Schermerhorn, from the Alumni Association of the School of Mines; Dr. E. R. A. Seligman, representing the alumni of the School...
...many days we have been in receipt of communications relative to the proposed university club. We have abstained from commenting on the matter in the hope that the discussion would explain itself. But now that little has been said to the point, do there not remain many questions to be asked and much information to be gained? What is it intended that this so-called university club shall be? If a custom of exclusion is to be practiced the result is that the club, however bright its promise, cannot succeed in meeting such a need as is said to exist...
...course, in whatever matter the examination paper is prepared, we all know the subjects well enough to meet the demands upon our intelligence (and our imagination as well sometimes); but every student has a sympathy with certain parts of his work, and takes more interest in those parts than in others. He would perfer always to dilate upon these favorite topics. Under the old system it was as Cicero would say "bull-luck" whether he had a chance or not. Under the new regime he can show himself to better advantage...
...calls a "petty difficulty," I may perhaps be allowed to say, in my own and others' behalf, that it is a very poor answer to those who claim that the Bachelor's degree ought not to be disturbed in the possession of its ancient privileges. If it is a matter of small consequence, the innovators will act wisely by leaving the conservatives in possession of the old and betaking themselves to the new; the latter do not think it a matter of small importance. I am a thorough believer in the elective system, yet I do not believe that...