Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen's turn came the vast difference between Harvard and other colleges was immediately apparent, a difference which Harvard considers greatly to its credit, but which would be unheard of elsewhere. The freshmen sat quietly in their places and had their photographs taken as if it was a matter of course. There was not a sophomore to be seen, no reflected light was cast on the group to spoil the picture, and the whole ordeal passed off only less solemly and less soberly than the one through which '88 had just passed...
...full powers of officers of the officers of the law, but in the college grounds. The task will demand some self-sacrifice. But we do not doubt that there are enough men in college who will gladly make the sacrifice necessary. We hope the crew men will take the matter in hand at once that we may be delivered from the nuisance complained of as speedily...
...International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations at 60 East 23rd Street, New York, has just issued the Association "Year Book for 1888." This pamphlet of 200 pages contains among other matter the following: A valuable historical paper entitled "The Early Story of the Confederation of the American Associations," by William Chauncy Langdon, D. D., Annual Reports of the Secretaries and Corresponding Members of the International Committee indicating the present condition of the work in all parts of the United States and Canada. Full statistical reports of the American Associations, including the College, Railroad, German, Colored and Indian Departments...
...patrol the yard and the athletic grounds would cost very little during the spring and autumn months in comparison with the benefit which would result to the college. If the college authorities will not keep the college property free from such pests, then the students must take the matter in hand. It is a burning shame that students of such a college as this should be subjected to such treatment. At Yale there is a college police force, and one never hears of such intrusions upon college rights there. If it is beneath our boasted Harvard dignity to form ourselves...
...thought of course the Library would be open as usual, expected to do a day's work for the examinations. Why the library should be shut on a day when many men would certainly desire to use the books is a little hard to see. To view the matter most charitably, the authorities showed a blameworthy thoughtlessness in depriving men of the aid they need, particularly in these days just before the examinations...