Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...print in full the prayer petition from the O. K. Society. We print it because it is a matter in which every undergraduate is, or ought to be deeply interested. Moreover, this document is the fullest and ablest presentation of the question which has yet appeared in any college paper. Doubtless many will object to some of the views set forth. But no statement has been made in the petition which has not been carefully considered by those who have tried to think clearly and conscientiously on the topic; no stand has been taken without being thoroughly discussed. Accordingly...
...notice that attendance was compulsory. But however large a part laziness may have in ordinary opposition to prayers, it would be a mistake to suppose that there is not a genuine, conscientious disapproval of them. This disapproval is founded on the widespread feeling that religious practices should be made matters for individual taste and feeling to direct; that everyone has a right to follow his own bent in such matters. So widespread is this feeling, that it underlies the arguments of those who defend compulsory prayers as well as of those who oppose them. No one thinks of assigning...
...Philosophy IV Professor Palmer has taken up a new and seemingly good scheme for the final examination. He has proposed a thesis subject which will cover all the year's work. The members of the section are to write out the thesis in the examination room, after getting matter for it during the rest of the course. Such a plan is necessarily better for a philosophical examination than for many other kinds; but still we would like to see it more commonly adopted. For in the ordinary examination, without showing that you have any connected idea of your work...
...sack, the pleura, the inner part of which passes over the outside of the lungs and the outer part lines the inside of the chest. In health there is nothing between these two surfaces but a little moisture which helps them to slip easily on each other; a matter of importance, as the lungs have to keep in constant motion and follow the rising and falling of the ribs. If this sack becomes inflamed we have the disease called pleurisy...
...which we breathe is filled with floating particles of matter of every description; of course various circumstances regulate the quantity and kind. When we breathe air which has once been breathed, we are taking into our lungs air from which the necessary oxygen has been withdrawn and the poisonous carbonic acid substituted. oxygen we can get best from out-door air and from that of the country rather than that of the city...