Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brute strength and inordinate roughness. We are further pleased that the fact has been recognized that Yale does not depend on weight for the make-up of her teams. We are not certain that the papers would not have spoken differently if Yale had won. But that is a matter for conjecture only. Harvard will undoubtedly put a freshman team in the field, and thus the problem which presented itself at the beginning of this year will never have to be solved again. We trust, however, that the spirit of improvement which has animated foot-ball men in the past...
There the officers of instruction have increased 60 per cent., here 112 per cent. In that very important matter, "the sinews of war" we have made a gain of more than 100 per cent. to Yale's 75. In the light of these statistics, who can wonder at the desire of the Yale alumni to adopt a more liberal scheme of education and thus make a more rapid intellectual development force greater material prosperity...
...worthy of consideration. Civil service reform is attracting much attention in political life at present, and with justice. It is the important question of the day. College men, and we refer particularly to Harvard undergraduates, have little or no real knowledge of the right and wrong of the matter, and the Advocate's suggestion of a course of lectures on the subject by prominent civil service reformers, is very pertinent. Cannot the authorities of the college, or some one of our energetic societies, take the matter up and give us a course of interesting lectures by prominent specialists...
...number of related facts are gathered, and put into intelligible form. It is commonly said that the man who does this sort of work in an historical essay, or biographical sketch, shows neither thought nor originality. Yet such a statement is far from true. For it is no light matter to take a given number of facts about an affair of ordinary interest and so arrange them as to hold the attention of a reader. In one way, such is the task of an artist in making colors into a picture. The writer must see what...
...work they may chance to do is so much to their credit as being not at all required of them. They are willing to work at odd times; but the idea of going up to the gymnasium day in and day out, and doing their level best, no matter how they may feel, is so appalling that as yet they have completely failed to grasp it. They all think that such little points as being sharp on time and keeping strict time while at the chestweights, are of such slight importance that it is not worth their while...