Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...week." Our rising hopes are dashed the next instant by a contradictory report to the effect that no rooms can be entered until Christmas. Perchance we make humble inquiry at the bursar's office. The gentleman across the desk smiles blandly and says he knows absolutely nothing about the matter. Under this mystical cloud remains the plain fact that scores of students are living about Cambridge in extremely inconvenient quarters, and in an unsettled condition anything but conducive to satisfactory work or to a happy frame of mind. If we could only get information from some source about the real...
Among the subjects being discussed by the convention of college presidents is the advisability of faculties directing students in their choice of electives studies: the significance of the degrees of "B. A. " and "M. A." and the matter of condensing the four years' course of studies into a three years' course...
...Storrow got hold of them to get them in anything like a uniform method of rowing. With what little accuracy words can describe any stroke, is plainly shown in Mr. Watson-Taylor's article. His words describe very well what Yale and Harvard try to do, while as a matter of fact Yale and Harvard row very differently from the English crews. This difference is inevitable from the difference in English and American rigs. The Yale and Harvard crews are rigged practically alike. The characteristics of their rigging are the short stretchers, and slides as long as a man naturally...
...which the New England people were allowed to carry on trade and engage in the fisheries, but this treaty soon came to an end. The Canadians, however, were willing to share with the United States in the fisheries provided the latter will come to a reasonable agreement in the matter. Mr. Bourinot lastly enumerated many things which would advance the interests of both countries and make their relations more friendly; the settlement of the question of the fisheries; a complete extradition treaty by which all escaped criminals might be returned to the United States; the opening of the canals...
What induced the authorities to wire up the first gate to the Memorial yard we cannot see. The gate as it is today is decidedly unsightly, while the dangling wire seems to serve no useful purpose. The matter, small though it is, should be attended to at once...