Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college papers ferret out the authors of the small disturbances, such as the painting of the John Harvard statue. The writer thinks that in this way the responsibility and odium for giving information could be taken from one man and laid upon many, while the management of the matter would still be in the hands of undergraduates. Without doubt such a plan has advantages and disadvantages, which actual experiment only can determine and balance. Meanwhile we should like some expression of opinion from those who are not on the papers...
...Conference Committee will commend itself to all. Heretofore dishonesty has, by the sanction of the faculty's rule, held much the same position as playing ball in the yard. It is a thing not wrong in itself; but merely improper in college. Striking out any rule about the matter puts the crime on the same ground as stealing books from the library. Stealing is everywhere an offence, and needs no rule to make it so. Men do not need to be told about that which by everyone everywhere is or should be deemed immoral...
...outbreak of the rebellion a guard for the Arsenal was organized, composed of Harvard students. They marched to the enlivening music of fife and drum, drilled, and stood guard until the matter got to be looked upon as an opportunity for having a good time rather than as a serious and important duty, when their further services were declared to be unnecessary. Later on many regular troops were equipped here with arms and ammunition, and in 1864, at the time when the "Merrimac" was creating such havoc in the neighborhood of Norfolk, Governor Andrew had an addition...
...more important secret societies, and because many of those who are fortunate enough to become members of them are obliged to go to heavy expense in the way of fees and assessments. This plan for a university club is by no means a new one, in fact, the matter was discussed in the old Harvard Herald some few years ago. Yet the project has many points to commend it to favorable deliberation. For instance, by forming a club of this kind with a large membership, a small assessment fee would be amply sufficient to provide many desirable features of club...
...public recitals which were given by the club last year could be repeated with advantage, and would undoubtedly interest a large number of students. It has been suggested that a series of lectures be given under the auspices of the club, and active interest has been taken in the matter by the society. Such a course of lectures, delivered by prominent speakers, would do much to aid the club in its work, and would undoubtedly inspire additional interest in the study to which it is devoted...