Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- It has long been a matter of conjecture with many students why the German books in the library are not easier of access. Notwithstanding it is of serious importance, little or no public attention has been paid the matter, although the daily annoyance occasioned by this difficulty is the subject of considerable comment in private. It is true in one of the alcoves there are a couple of shelves of German books, but comprising only the works of Goethe, Schiller and Lessing. These are almost useless for consecutive reading, since one is obliged to get them...
...question of having a Memorial was brought forward, and in the discussion it was suggested that the class should found an annual prize for a junior oratorical contest. It was proposed to subscribe $500 this year, and, by annual subscriptions, to increase the fund to $1,000. The matter was laid on the table...
...CRIMSON editor had been correct about the time $195.01 would have been enormous wages for an engineer. As a matter of fact we had the engineer from May 6th to July 6th inclusive. For a good man for a short job you must pay good wages. It is the poorest sort of economy, with a complicated Herreschoff engine, to engage a second rate engineer. As a matter of economy I should advise hiring the best man to be had, even if were necessary to pay him half as much again as we paid our engineer last spring...
...cannot agree with Mr. Balch in this matter, although we are as earnest as he is to advance the financial interests of the crew, for we have declared it our belief that mismanagement, if not extravagance. has been the rule for some time past. Last June the college was surprised to learn that the boat club was still in arrears when every one had been informed that the strenuous efforts made in the winter of '85-'86 had succeeded in wiping out the indebtedness which, something over $2000 in the fall of 1884, had been $1600 in October 1885. This...
...matter of regret to members of the clubs that, through lack of time they were unable to visit St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Denver, whose alumni associations has sent urgent invitations to the clubs to visit their cities: but it is hoped that circumstances will permit of their doing so next year...