Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...during the past year to the students. The Dante Prize, the Sargent Prize, and the Sumner Prize will be found announced in the next catalogue as regular university prizes, in addition to the Bowdoin and Toppan prizes. There is no college in the country which offers inducements in the matter of scholarships and prizes equal to those of Harvard. The last prizes which have been offered are calculated to inspire literary work of a high order, and it is to be hoped that many men will feel called upon to compete...
...Bowdoins, but was always given after a victory, and that no response was expected, so that our men did not stop. Afterwards, when the mistake was discovered, our boys expressed much regret. The Bowdoins were more than satisfied with their treatment. I wish you would correct the matter in your columns, as I know our nine intended no discourtesy...
While we hesitate to approach a question of such moment to the college as the "state of the yard," we feel that when each spring reminds us of a growing practice among the students detrimental to the appearance of the yard, some attention ought to be called to the matter. We refer to the custom of walking across the grass. Whenever there is a large plot of grass it is almost certain to be marred by a long winding path, which remains year after year, despite the efforts of the college constabulary to obliterate it. Fertilizers and non-fertilizers have...
...morrow the annual elections of officers and directors of the Memorial Dining Association will be held. The matter should be of interest to everyone in the hall; for upon the energy and executive ability of the two leading officers depends in a great measure the success of the association; and the success of this co-operative movement for furnishing board is of importance to everyone in college. We hope to see many votes cast in this election, and an able set of officers elected...
...writing knew well that we were by no means alone in our position. And simply because we wrote with both sincerity and good will, we have not the least reason for regretting what we wrote. But we do regret that our worthy contemporary should feel so sore over the matter. We are ever ready to receive well-meant criticism ourselves; we do not intend to give up our own right of offering it to others. But, however the Lampoon may have felt over our critical editorial, it is very noticeable that the criticisms are much less applicable to the current...