Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were freshmen; yet it is a thing at which to be gratified that they should have been manly enough to come forward when they found that their escape was serious, and give up their plunder, we trust, unharmed. We congratulate the Anniversary Committee upon being able to settle the matter so quietly and so quickly...
...have also to acknowledge the favors shown by Harvard College to me personally in the matter of a degree, and could expect nothing further. But the fact remains that on the occasion of an important anniversary the good-will shown so other institutions all about us was withheld from Princeton, which I was invited to represent. I acknowledge that Harvard had a right to bestow its honors where it choses, but, surrounded as I am by a body of professors carrying on an original research and printing their results for the public in books and periodicles, I thought it strange...
After giving the matter some thought but not until he was thoroughly convinced that an intentional slight was put upon Princeton College, Dr. McCosh wrote to the secretary of the committee which had had charge of the arrangements and from whom he had received his invitation. In this letter he wrote that he had attended the celebration on the invitation of Harvard College and had "met treatment that could not possibly by any chance have happened to a Harvard representative at Princeton...
...McCosh's letter shook the placidity that generally reigns at Harvard, and it was at once decided that the matter was far too serious to be settled by a secretary of arrangements. President Eliot took it in hand, and he wrote to Dr. McCosh in a dual capacity as President of Harvard University and as an intimate friend...
...first it would seem that Harvard should decide this question, on account of her victory last year, - but as this race with Columbia has been an institution for such a long time, it is only fair that the latter college should have something to say about the matter. And from what several of their men inferred at New London last June, they will not hear of Yale's coming in this year...