Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...badge of Lasell, the Lasell pin, is now ready. It is to be worn by Lassellians in such a fashion that "the initiated eye can find it and recognize in" its wearers, "no matter how scattered" through this or other lands, sisters, inmates of the same home, toilers in like tasks, partakers of the same birch...
...stores for the signatures of those who intend to march in the torchlight parade on November 1st. These books are to remain open only till tomorrow night and every one is urged to sign without delay in order that the requisite number of uniforms may be supplied. The matter should be attended to at once since every man who fails to sign runs the risk of having no uniform when the night of the parade comes...
...criticism for withholding the results of the canvass for presidential candidates. The college at large has been waiting since Saturday for the returns, and will, we are told, be forced in the end to wait until the Thursday meeting of the Union before it shall be satisfied in a matter of keen interest to all its members. And yet no reason is assigned for this delay except the desire of the Union to draw a large number of men Thursday. The motive surely is an insufficient one, not to say selfish, and shows a lack of college spirit...
...football season has begun, and we shall have a steady list of casualties from now on. Princeton and Yale seem to have pretty well matched teams, and the championship will probably lie between them. What is the matter with the Harvard men? It is so long since they won anything except tennis games that the graduates are absolutely disheatened.-N. Y. Star...
...worthy of publication. The number as a whole, however, is not as interesting to the general reader as some of its predecessors. The work and thought of the essayist is given prominence almost to the exclusion of the writers of fiction. We have little fault to find with the matter presented but we think that if something in a lighter vein had been introduced among the sober products of the essayist the magazine would have been improved...