Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this particular case. The questionable youth of various stamps are concerned. It has long been a source of mortification to those who have entertained their friends to endure the presence and conversation of this class. Each year we have heard the same complaint and the same remedy suggested. The matter is already in the hands of the class day committee, and the evil could be stopped at once if the proper measures were adopted. Where each senior is allowed more tickets than he can possibly use among his more immediate friends, it is natural that he should...
...time is fast approaching when those members of the senior class who are fortunate enough to be able to choose their future aim in life will necessarily be obliged to make some definite decision in regard to that matter. It may be another case of the blind leading the blind, if we venture to make any suggestions. Nevertheless, it may be well to call to mind a few well-known facts. The pursuit should be adapted to the capacity of the man. Trite as this statement may appear, perhaps there is none that is usually less regarded in the choice...
...marks in German A are said to be, on the average, unusually high. This should be a matter of gratification to the instructors as well as to the class...
...Tribune casually brings up another matter that is of far more concern to us, and, as we believe, to the public at large. When Cambridge horses go about "clad in airy gymnasium costume," and that, too, on North Avenue, certainly something ought to be done...
...that the alteration would probably be permanent, and that sooner or later the subject of Bimetallism would be an issue in our politics. But it was not until the passage of the Bland-Allison bill, in the early part of 1878, that public attention was forcibly called to the matter. Since then the importance of the question has slowly grown, until now the people are paying as much heed to it as to the tariff and civil service reform...