Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...anniversary number of the Advocate a criticism upon the courses offered by the English department. In the main the writer merely points out what is lacking in the present series of courses but makes no attempt to suggest a remedy, knowing presumably, as all know, who have given the matter any attention, that it is only want of funds which prevents many improvements in this, as well as in other departments of the University...
...matter of reproach that we do not wish to do our work in a fragmentary manner - and fragmentary it must be, if we cannot find the reserved books, or if some other man finds them before us? It is a matter of reproach that we sit in our rooms - aye, in an easy chair, and read our history as a connected whole, working from the beginning - cause and result - and not as ninety nine cases out of a hundred we must have done with the topic reading: - working up the result and leaving the cause till next week...
...delicious flavor of uncertainty that shows only too well how desultory such a process of work is. In History 13, however, the instructor has given us a system whereby we can get at the sense of the question without being compelled to wade through pages of unimportant or irrelevant matter. It would entail a large amount of work upon the instructor but there would be a great saving of labor, and a more concise and philosophical knowledge of history among Harvard men, if the very much desired system of History 13 could become universal in our history courses...
...current expenses of their respective teams, we should expect even more willingness in aid of such a perpetual emblem. Then too, no other sport has so many advantages as tennis. The hundreds of enthusiasts in the sport should make the collection of the sum required an easy matter. Friends of tennis then, come forward and give to the college a tennis trophy which shall be a credit to the players as a body and to the delightful game...
...nourishment. Besides turning away the appetite, such food is really injurious, and we have in mind now at least one student who is obliged to leave on account of his health, because the food has become unbearable. Would it not be policy for the directors to look into the matter a little...