Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Waters Will Play Today.Ex-Captain Waters stated on Saturday that he would positively be out for practice on Monday. One of the coaches said that Mackie would also join the squad later, but there seems to be a good deal of doubt on the matter...
...second place, this year happens to be a very crucial one in the matter. Last year policemen were put on duty in the yard to quell disturbance. Their presence was held by many to have helped, not to quell, but to excite disturbance. This year the officers of the University have decided to trust to the students implicitly. Not a policeman will be in the Yard; even the regular watchman has been told not to interfere. The University officers have practically said that, if students can control themselves, they shall have the opportunity of showing it. How that opportunity...
...Reception of Students was clearly needed. Newcomers found it harder and harder to adapt themselves to the complex condition which they met; all were inconvenienced and not a few were disheartened. To do away with this state of things, a few members of the Faculty took the matter into hand and put their sympathy into definite form. They bethought themselves of what new students wanted to know, they gathered the needed information, and secured means for easily communicating it to students...
...such a choosing and testing, to such a nice discrimination of sound, propriety, position, and shade of meaning, that we now first learn the secret of the words we have been using or misusing all our lives, and are gradually made aware that to set forth even the plainest matter, as it should be set forth, is not only a very difficult thing, calling for thought and practice, but an affair of conscience as well. Translating teaches us as nothing else can, not only that there is a best way, but that it is the only way. Those who have...
...after Commencement, will be nearly if not quite $1500.00. All persons who have promised to subscribe to the fund and have not yet done so will please send their subscriptions as soon as possible. If there are any more undergraduates who wish to contribute, their subscriptions, no matter how small, will be gladly received...