Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which appeared yesterday, is much better than those immediately preceding it. The editorial department in particular is good. The management of the finances of the varions athletic organizations is criticised in a candid, and on the whole, just manner, and the reforms suggested are both necessary and timely. The matter of the proposed three-cornered freshman race has been already pretty thoroughly discussed, so the editorial on that subject does little more than sum up the argument in a forcible way. The old subject of the formation of a second sophomore society is again brought...
...days, when this comparatively unimportant examination could as well as not be given on the same day as the examination in senior English. If no change is made in the date of this examination this year, we hope that next year something will be done in the matter...
...management certainly deseves censure for its slowness in the matter. There was no excuse for not finding out every particular in regard to the trains, and then after that it would seem that the captain did not make an effort to get his men together and go to Exeter proportionate to the trouble which the management there took to arrange the game...
...have spoken of this matter thus elaborately because we think there is a disposition here not always to take every possible means to fulfil an engagement with a preparatory school. It cannot be expected if Harvard leaves it to other colleges to send teams to the preparatory schools that she will reap the benefits...
...five hundred dollars has already been given by Mr. Villard, of New York, towards defraying the expenses, and with that as a basis there seems to be every reason to hope that enough money can be obtained to start a library if those interested take hold of the matter with a will...