Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rowing-room from being ready for use on the Monday following. Last Monday several crews were unable to row, as the rowing-weights had not yet been put down after their removal for the use of the ball. This is, to say the least, an inconvenience, and although the matter is a small one, it is to be sincerely hoped that hereafter the room will be ready for the crews...
...said that a number of those who live without the prayer limits are hesitating to sign the petition. These men claim that it is not a matter with which they are concerned. Their view, however, seems due to a misapprehension in regard to the petition. This document is meant to be expression of undergraduate opinion in regard to the advisability, or unadvisability of compulsory attendance at prayers. It maters not where a man lives, he should have some opinion on this affair of general college interest. So signing the petition is as legitimate for him as for anyone else...
...Prayer Petition postal cards will probably be sent to the students for signatures. The matter should be heeded by all, for the end to be gained is worth far more than the slight work of signing and mailing a card...
...holds that misery is the great fact of life; the other, that happiness is. Each is in duty bound steadfastly to set forth his side, if he thinks that thereby men will do better. To blame a writer because he does not hold your view in such a matter, is arrogant; for you are as likely as he to err. A little more kindly toleration from both is desirable. The optimist should recognize that, after all, the pessimist may be right; the pessimist should have the courtesy to acknowledge that an optimist is not necessarily a fool; for all human...
Then, in order to do something striking, to scare people, we try to bring in the fantastic and horrible. But unluckily we have never seen what is fantastic or horrible. At most we have only read about such things; as a full realization of the matter is yet beyond us. Accordingly, when we try to write in this forced way, our productions are simply weak and unnatural...