Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There has been some complaint about college - it is true the complaining has not been very extensive - that the practice of placing the numbers over the pulpit in chapel, to indicate the psalms and hymns, has been given up, or at least very much neglected. We grant that the matter is of slight importance, but still we think the custom a sufficiently valuable one to be continued, and certainly we can see no good reason for its discontinuance. To those, who take part in the services, the numbers are often useful...
Probably the most marked change in college discipline has come in the matter of personal direction which was then supposed to take the place of parental discipline. One of the many rules laid down was that every undergraduate must wear a black coat on Sundays. Disobedience to this law incurred nearly the same punishment as drunkenness or any of the other capital crimes. The narrator remembers a circumstance in connection with the rule which is worth repeating. One of his friends, a quiet and studious young man, not knowing the regulation, had provided himself before entering college with a Sunday...
...following is the synopsis of Dr. Farnham's lecture to night: Scarf skin and true skin. Coloring matter. Albino. Nails and hair. Excessive growth of hair. Glands of skin. Perspiration...
...compulsory service; but compulsion then did not mean what compulsion means now. To-day there is no general sentiment either within or without the college which justifies a compulsory attendance at chapel. Religion has become utterly disassociated from any idea of compulsion. Prayer is held to be a matter between a man and his God, not between a man and the college authorities. Nevertheless, a course in chapel is still necessary for a degree...
...power of criticism, description, narration, exposition and argumentative composition. There is far too little "college reading." Our four courses are not, after all, the whole substance of a good year's work at college. But space forbids further discussion at this point. We trust, however, that the matter will soon be presented more cogently and at greater length...