Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class for inaugurating a custom that undoubtedly will be of the utmost advantage to our university boating interests as adding experience to men while in their freshmen year and then giving the university boat its quota of men after the race of freshmen year is over. The whole matter can be made a perfect success only by honest hard work, and the best of financial support on the part of all the class...
...considering these figures, it should be remembered that most of the reading matter of the CRIMSON is only 'single leaded,' while the matter in both the Yale New and Princetonian is largely 'double leaded.' Still when papers are to be judged by the number of feet they publish, it will be time to investigate the accuracy and justice of the Princetonian's figures...
...relative standing of the Princetonian with its two leading contemporaries, the Harvard Crimson and the Yale News. Leaving out all "Notices" and our Bulletin Elm from the three papers, the News, which has annually about 176 issues, gives to its readers in the neighborhood of 1144 feet of reading matter, the Crimson with 212 issues has 1166 feet of matter, and the Princetonian with 100 issues has 920 feet. The Harvard Crimson, the Yale News, and the Princetonian print in the order named more matter in the course of the year than any other college paper...
...quite superfluous for us to speak again of the loose way in which many items of so called "news" are worked up for the city papers, but with complaints coming to us from three or four different quarters we find ourselves obliged to speak of the matter once more. Setting aside all reference to the frequent misrepresentations of students and instructors of the college, we would touch only upon athletics. The members of the athletic teams are constantly complaining that they and their sports are grossly misrepresented in the city press. That their complaints are, with few exceptions, well founded...
...real adversary of the public school system, an adversary whose opposition is avowed, positive and usually logical is the Catholic denomination - in its clergy, for left to themselves the laity would be inert in the matter. The Catholic church has put the schools in this dilemma: schools that retain the shadow of religious instruction are denounced as sectarian, while those that leave it out are branded as godless. And to neither kind, the church declares, can it send its children; accordingly, at the late council in Baltimore, it ordered the erection of parochial schools throughout the country...