Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weeks ago you published an editorial urging that a part of the surplus in the treasury of the F. F. B. A. be devoted to the purchase of suitable trophies for the members and substitutes on the football team. No action, however, seems to have been taken in the matter. Is this suggestion of the CRIMSON to be disregarded? I hope not, for it was certainly a good one. The men deserve some recognition of their splendid victory over Yale, and in later years such trophies, if given, will be pleasant mementos of the freshman year at Harvard...
...rule pursued in these meetings in regard to the question of sparring, is, I believe, to make the class known as the featherweight, include all men whose weight is, or under, 125 pounds. To a person unaccustomed to the ring a matter of four or five pounds in the difference in weight of the two contestants is of no moment. A difference of a few pounds in the weight of two heavyweights would not be considered of much importance; but this disparity in the case of featherweights is of the greatest moment. The difference in the comparative strength...
...challenge has been received by the Yale 'varsity crew to row the university crew of the Dublin University, provided the Yale crew goes over to England this spring to row Cambridge. No action has as yet been taken on the matter, but the sentiment is in favor of accepting the challenge, in case the Yale crew goes over to England...
...January Monthly contains much that is good; more perhaps that is mediocre. It would have been better for the reputation of the Monthly had one or two of the articles not been published. Enough good matter is presented, however, to make the number as a whole enjoyable...
...thirty years to show this view to be incorrect. He notes that in teaching geology in the field, walks which twenty years ago surpassed the pedestrian powers of one-half of his students are now quite within their abilities. He notes that a poor physical condition is now a matter of reproach to a student, which he feels obliged to explain in some way. He says, decidedly: 'There can be no question in my mind that the physical condition of the average student at Harvard College is vastly better than it was a score of years...