Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale exhibition game a full three-quarters of the reserved seats were unoccupied. As the number of reserved seats, or rather seats with backs, increases, the matter should be so regulated that all which are not needed shall not be reserved. In common justice to the students, who should be regarded as much as outsiders, the best seats should not be monopolized...
...opposition to the desire of some to build fires must be shown, let it be done in as gentlemanly a manner as possible. But insomuch as the students are themselves responsible, each man ought to feel his responsibility, and look to no other man as his leader in a matter of purely gentlemanly conduct...
...resignation of the yard committee in consequence of the small vote polled, proves conclusively either that it is the distinct wish of the majority of the students that there shall be no yard committee, or that there is little general interest felt in the whole matter. The time has come when it is necessary for the college to express some definite opinion for or against the possibility of active student government. It is a disgrace to the university that upon a public poll open to every student of the college, only a small minority of the students felt called upon...
...faculty of Harvard College lost no time after receiving the Tyndall trust, in making rules for its administration*. Mr. Brogan of the class of 1885 was selected to enjoy its advantages, and was in Europe pursuing the appropriate studies before Columbia College had begun to move in the matter...
Although it is very late to "boom" a sophomore dinner, yet the importance of the matter makes energetic action imperative. We must have a dinner, a big and a successful one too, and it must take place before the last of next week...