Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...inadequacy of the bathing facilities in the gymnasium to meet the demands of those who wish to use them afternoons is becoming daily more and more apparent. Last year remonstrances and complaints were made to the gymnasium authorities about the matter, and, if we mistake not, a reform was promised. But the condition of things has not been changed in the least, and we have the same old picture of a group of shivering men in the bathroom waiting sometimes as long as a quarter of an hour to get a chance to use the shower-bath. During the winter...
...little upon the self-control of every member. The tendency towards disorder is one which will grow inevitably if a distinct effort is not made to avoid all such unnecessary demonstrations as those we have mentioned. We ask those who have taken part in these demonstrations to think the matter over, and we are sure that they will not again be guilty of the actions of which complaint has been made...
...again has the subject been brought up through your columns, editorially and by communication, but still the men remain inactive. I do not think that this is entirely due to lack of interest in Harvard, but more probably because no one wishes to assume the lead in the matter. Such modesty is entirely out of place, and no man who would be at all likely to have influence in the formation of an Exeter club should be controlled by such petty feeling as fear of over-boldness. I am certain that there are many men in the university...
...lecture had been made so late. Sever 11 was well filled last evening by an appreciative audience. Prof. Norton's lecture was of the most interesting character, and his account of the work already done in the partial excavation of Delphi, and of what those most interested in the matter hoped to do in further discoveries, could not but infuse enthusiasm into his hearers...
...work showed the opportunity for discovery and research among the ruins. Twenty years later another attempt at discovery was made by the French. America had no hand in the work until some eleven years ago Gen. Meredith Read, the United States Minister to Greece, interested himself in the matter. He was soon recalled from Athens, however, and it was not until two years ago that Americans became actively engaged in the matter. Then the prominence into which the American School of Athens brought all objects of Greek antiquity stirred Americans to obtain the concession from the Greek government...