Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Negotiations are still pending in regard to the postponement of the Yale game; nothing has been definitely decided as to the date. Captain Willard is in communication with the Yale management, and the matter will be arranged at any rate within the next few days...
...Hereafter, neither party shall play on a freshman team, (a) any member of a professional school, no matter what his time of residence at the university; (b) any dropped man although regularly enrolled as a member of the freshman class; (c) nor any first-year man catalogued as an upperclassman; (d) no man who has previously played on a freshman team; (e) nor any one enrolled and catalogued in any other manner except as a regular academic freshman: except...
...promiscuous charity, but simply a design for getting the greatest possible use out of furniture without allowing to a second-hand dealer a series of liberal commissions. The necessary expenses of life in college are nowadays so great that any means of reducing them is a matter of great importance for the University. A similar plan has been arranged for a Loan Library of text-books. Almost everybody has a shelf full of old text-books of which he would be glad to make any disposition that might be useful to some one; and we understand that text-books...
...bowing of the Yale seniors as the president makes his exit from the chapel after the morning service is one of those customs peculiar to college men, and one whose origin is a matter of mere conjecture. The Yale News says of the custom: "It is believed to have been introduced at the time the college was founded, and to have been taken from a practice common at that time in New England churches for the congregation at the close of the service to rise and bow as the parson passed down the aisle. This practice of our Puritan ancestors...
...reporting the inadvisability of a dual league the committee have expressed the sentiments of the college. At the time the question was so unfortunately agitated the college opinion was nearly unanimously against it, and the decision of the committee is wisely taken as representing undergraduate feeling in this matter...