Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more efficient officer. A police officer who thinks he rules the world simply because he wears brass buttons and carries a club is a public nuisance, and should be taught to draw the line between what is his duty and what is none of his business. In this matter, Leavitt and Peirce are not to blame, and are naturally much annoyed that the thing should have happened...
...York Tribune contains the following: "Professor Richards on Monday said: 'There is no danger of the overseers of Yale following the example of Harvard in the matter of athletics. Not only do I consider wholesome athletic exercises beneficial but necessary in college life, and the best way to promote them is by means of the intercollegiate games. A good athlete is generally a studious pupil, but, of course, there are exceptions.'"- Yale News...
...head of its governing body. Dr. Barnard has done much to bring the college to its present prosperous condition, having labored hard and faithfully for nearly a quarter of a century in the interests of the institution, whose chief he was. It will be no easy matter for the Board of Trustees to select a worthy successor to the responsible position which Dr. Barnard has been compelled, by ill-health, to vacate. As for the retiring president, he can desire no better reward than a retrospective glance at the ever-increasing prosperity of the college during the past twenty-five...
...been placed at Leavitt and Peirce's. It is greatly desired that every one in all of the departments of the University in Cambridge shall east a vote, so that the result of the canvass may represent as truly as possible the present state of college opinion on this matter. All will please vote today, if possible, and at the latest on Friday...
...Peabody and entitled "Religion in a University" is very opportune. It is a frank statement of Harvard on the question of voluntary and compulsory attendance at religious services. The essay is forcible, directly to the point, and convincing. It reads like a final statement of the matter, and we hope that it will meet the eyes of those who have been hasty in condemning what they have called the over-haste of Harvard towards liberalism. A short extract is contributed by Dr. Hale from his forthcoming volume on "Franklin in France." The part played by Franklin in the Asgill affair...