Word: matter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...students. It is tacitly understood, however, that as the faculty do not in any way object to the contests in themselves but to the general disturbances resulting from a victory, if the students will pledge themselves to restrain their ardor in the celebrations, the faculty will let the matter drop. In order to insure the continuance of all intercollegiate games, the students have themselves taken the proposition in hand and have set about organizing a special college police force, to do duty in the yard when any celebration is in progress. F. Stevenson, the captain of the crew, has been...
...students disobeyed the injunction put upon them previous to the Yale-Harvard game, and celebrated their victory in the most frolicsome style. A strong effort is being made by the students to have the vote rescinded, and thus far they have succeeded in getting the faculty to hold the matter in abeyance for one week. Should the faculty refuse to reconsider the matter, all college athletics will have to be dropped. The boat races will come off as usual, as the college has no jurisdiction in the matter, because the race takes place after the close of the college term...
...have as yet made no reply to the inquiries of the committee in regard to college athletics. Without the co-operation of the students. the committee cannot form a clear idea of the state of athletics and of physical exercise in the college. This is a matter which deeply concerns the welfare of the University, and in which instructors and students alike have an interest. The committee wish to know what are the habits of exercise and the opinions of students of every sort; of those who take no active part in athletics, or do not exercise...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I feel impelled to bring to notice through your columns the actions of a certain set of sophomores in Memorial Hall. In the matter of loud talking, boisterous behaviour, and general vulgarity of demeanor they are unexcelled. If they would only indulge in their monkey shines when there are no strangers about; but they seem to take particular delight in throwing bread, hammering on the table and cursing the waiter when there are spectators in the gallery. Just at this time the public is subjecting Harvard students to a good deal of unfavorable criticism, and it behooves...
...your exchanges, that the actions of these particular sophomores are a marked exception. What right have I to take my neighbors to task, to set myself up as a censor of public conduct? I am simply assuming the right of a Harvard man to express himself freely upon a matter which concerns the good name of his alma mater...