Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter of course foot-ball is still the most important subject of college discussion, and the games of Saturday and Thanksgiving Day are awaited with an absorbing interest by all. The strength of our eleven is a matter of debate. We have had no real opportunity for judging of its strength from the fact that in every game it has played so far, either our team has been materially weakened by the absence of some of its best men, or the opposing team has been changed very decidedly in its make-up, from the games in which it has played...
...when exercise and recreation call him out of doors. I shall not take more time adding to the arguments in favor of having the library lighted in the evening, but wish to suggest that some active measures be taken to convince the faculty of our earnestness in this matter. If a petition signed, as it certainly would be, by every man in the University, were presented to the faculty, perhaps they would consent to give us lights in the reading-room at least...
...regard to the many communications which we have received on the subject of lighting the library, we would say that it has annually been our custom to add our voice to the general hue and cry in this matter. It has always seemed to us the one great fault in the otherwise excellent management of the college library that a place which was avowedly built for the use of the students should be closed to them at the hour when the majority of men are in the mood for work. As our correspondent of to-day truly remarks, the afternoon...
...question of the challenge of the Yale freshmen to a boat-race with our freshmen is discussed by the Yale News of Tuesday and in commenting upon our position in the matter, that paper says...
...this view we hear that the Yale '89 crew practically defeated our freshmen two years ago, but the fact that they did not know how to row well enough in rough water, and so did not reach the finish-but the bottom-first has nothing to do with the matter. It is a good thing when a college knows how to take a defeat, even if they are occasional...