Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been abandoned, and that now it is sometimes difficult to collect any money for board at all. We had always presumed that certain conscientious scruples would prevent a man, although a member of a university team, from living entirely at the expense of the college, and that as a matter of course, he would pay at the regular training table what he had been accustomed to pay before. While the necessary expenses of a training table will be borne by the college, the entire cost will not, and the men at the training tables have no right to expect...
...York. Invitations having recently been received from the Harvard Clubs in the above mentioned cities asking that the clubs give concerts under their auspices, it was determined to ask the committee to reconsider its decision. The committee again declined, but expressed a willingness to bring the matter before the faculty. At the meeting of the faculty this afternoon the petitions of the clubs will be presented and final action taken...
...agreement between the organizations requires the committee to prescribe a form in which the accounts small be kept, and the committee have not yet done so; they have proceeded in this matter no further than to recommend some changes in the form of the books which would make the accounts clearly intelligible to any book-keeper. The committee believe that in this way the object which was aimed at in drawing up the agreement between the organizations has been fully at tainted, and that in time the accounts will all be brought into the same shape without any sudden change...
...boat club. The committee decided to give it to the boat club, as requested, but they attached the condition that the boat club with this help should be out of debt by the end of the academic year. As some misunderstanding has existed in regard to the matter, it may be stated again that the base ball association assumed no more power in regard to the money than they had under the agreement; they did not affix the condition, that was done by the committee...
...defaced the freshly cleaned and repaired ceiling of the topographical drawing room with the number of that class. The director attempted, by questioning, to discover the culprit, but each member of the class, with but few exceptions, refused to state whether or not he was the guilty person. The matter was brought before the faculty and it was recommended that the class be suspended for one week, but no decision has as yet been reached...