Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- The football season of '87 is over, and the championship has gone to Yale. Far be it from me to say that she does not deserve it; the right or wrong of the matter will never be decided. Still there are many of us who have yet to be convinced that the team which represented Harvard on the New York Polo Grounds last Thursday is inferior to Yale's eleven. However, it is useless to repine and to regret the presence of a partial referee; but there are some precautions which we can take which may prevent...
...This matter has been a subject of complaint-every year since I have been in college, and it does seem to me that in a matter so trifling, men might exercise a little care and make all the relations in the reading-room more agreeable than they...
...classes with his hat on, or have it on in an upper-classman's room, or in his own room when upper-classmen be there" ; "All freshmen shall be obliged to go on errands for upper classmen, but only out of study hours." Life must have been a solemn matter in those days, for Latin was the only language in use in the college yard, no other language being allowed. Every hour of the day had some duty assigned to it, and even in their devotions at morning and evening prayers the students underwent severe mental discipline. How time changes...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :- In the communication in your issue of the 16th, the old complaint about lighting the library at night is brought up; and perhaps it is just as well not to let the matter be forgotten, but at the same time we must not be unreasonable in our demands and complaints. In the first place the danger from fire is great. Gore Hall itself-I do not speak of the wing containing the stack-is anything but fire-proof. It is, perhaps, not generally known, that those apparently substantial columns in the waiting-room are in reality hollow...
...clock this evening to organize further these meetings. It is believed that they will furnish work of such a sort as will really help the people for whom the meetings are held. It is hoped that every member of the University who feels at all interested in the matter will come to the meeting to-night. None need feel that by his presence he commits himself to any part in the undertaking...