Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...month or more ago, certain members of the Glee Club kindly undertook to form a Glee Club from '92. Although a large number of freshmen sang before this committee, no result has yet been announced. If those who have the matter in hand intend to do nothing further, the freshmen themselves will form their club, but if the 'Varsity Club means to help '92, they should notify the successful candidates at once...
...glad to be able to announce that the rowing tank for the university crew is now only a matter of time. Permission has practically been granted for the use of the old gymnasium building, and it is hoped that the tank will be ready by the first of next year. We congratulate the crew on the accomplishment of their plan and trust that the new tank may aid them and future crews to win many a race from Yale. The value of the tank has been sufficiently demonstrated by the success of the Yale crews of the past two years...
...condition of things was so extraordinary that the matter ought to have been brought before the association at a special meeting convened for that purpose. If Yale can claim any glory from a championship won, as has been the case this year, well and good. It was like the claim of forfeit when a team had been unable to reach its destination on account of the breaking down of a train, or a detention of some nature. Harvard has a good eleven. The Harvards played their game with the Princetons on the grounds of the latter, and not on neutral...
...Cornell Register for 1889 has just been published. It contains a good deal of interesting matter and shows that during the last year a decided improvement has taken place in educational matters at Cornell. The courses have been materially changed and broadened so as to cover more ground; an agricultural experiment station and a weather bureau have been established. Five hundred thousand dollars have been spent upon new buildings during the last year. Of the 1174 students, 708 come from New York state; all states and territories are represented, besides a number of students from Japan, Brazil, Sandwich Islands...
...interests of fair play we are sorry that this thing has happened. But at all events our management is clearly absolved from all blame in the matter. They have acted as fairly and reasonably as their dignity and the necessity of the case would allow. They could scarcely allow themselves to be unjustly trampled upon...