Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...commended. This has been advised in our columns from time to time and we are glad that at last our words have taken root. The nuisance which the small vendors of the Boston dailies create about the steps of Memorial and the chapel, is no little matter, and their dismissal will be hailed by all as a great boon. It may be hard on the boys, but their noise and squabbles are the cause. In this as in other things the innocent must suffer with the guilty...
...matter o rooming, a great change has come about within a few years. Time was when none but unfortunate freshmen roomed elsewhere than "in college," but owing to the increasing dilapidation of the college building and the rapid increase of society houses, there has been a constant emigration from College Hill to the village. Of the students rooming in town above a hundred and ten live in society houses. These houses are owned by the Amherst chapters of the various Greek letter fraternities. Seven in number, they differ greatly in age, architecture, size, situation, convenience and elegance. Besides the secret...
...financial part of the matter would doubtless be easily arranged with the and of the alumni of the universities, and the colleges drawn more closely together...
...world outside, or from some reading which will result in giving insight; but the solution none the less lies with the students. To make a fool of one's self is, no doubt, a great sin; but that it is the cardinal sin of the calendar is a matter of doubt. Such it is regarded here; and it has become a common saying among those who have never been benefitted by our civilization that "a Harvard man is so afraid of doing something which will make him appear like a fool, that he never does anything...
...November number of the Harvard Monthly appeared yesterday, and is full of interesting and well-presented matter. The only exception that may well be taken to the selection of the articles is that, with two exceptions, they are all poetry, or else prose about poetry. Even granting that poetry is the "purest distillation of human thought," the reader of a magazine like the monthly is surprised, and perhaps a little disappointed, at finding it an anthology pure and simple. It might have been well to keep some of the verse for the adornment of the next number. Mr. Francis Ellingwood...