Word: matter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hale made a brief address, demanding the hearty co-operation of the students in the pleasure and duty of helping on the services. "Here in the midst of liberal ideas tending toward elective studies, there is one matter in which there is no option-the wish of the university that every freshman who enters this week goes forth four years hence better fitted to withstand the allurements of the world. What we all want is the confidence of the students...
...best foot forward," cups are given to those who by reason of their superior pluck and endurance manage to come in ahead of their fellows. Now that the college is beginning to swing into its regulated routine of work, it is time for those who have charge of the matter to organize runs for the fall term, and we hope that the freshmen will co-operate with the upper class-men in sustaining a branch of athletics from which so much good is derived...
...that athletics are not the main purpose of college life, but nevertheless, "Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well," and therefore, it shows a lamentable lack of determination and perseverance when the largest university of the country, with greater conveniences for athletic practice, succumbs as a matter of course to colleges which have neither its size nor its advantages. Defeat is always a disgrace, and in calling the position of Harvard in athletics disgraceful, one is not using a word that is a whit too strong. Can the blame be located? The captains of the university teams...
...boat was tried a number of times but owing partly to delays caused by the leaking of certain parts difficult to repair, and partly to the feeling that whatever merit the inventions might have it would hardly be possible to obtain any practical advantage of them that year, the matter was allowed to drop, and no definite conclusion was reached...
Owing entirely to my carelessness and not to that of any other present or past officer of the boat club I never raised the balance of fifty dollars by subscription as I had originally hoped to do. The matter stood thus until January of this year, when I received a bill from Mr. Fearon reminding me of the unpaid balance of fifty dollars. This bill I gave to Mr. Coolidge, asking him to see that it was paid by the boat club, and it was accordingly paid as he states. Whatever embarassment was thus caused to the boat club...