Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...given with the comparatively lately adopted 'Roman pronunciation.' Many persons are wont to ridicule this method, simply because their ears are unaccustomed to it. They prefer the mumpsimus of the ignorant priest to the sumpsimus of the Latin ritual. The sooner such persons, or any persons for that matter, become accustomed to the right way, the sooner they will find that there is no more difficulty and no less enjoyment in this than in the old barbarous jargon. For the English pronunciation is essentially that. It is not strange that the islanders should have swung away from their continental neighbors...
Evidently consistency is not among the chief virtues possessed by the members of the corporation. It was not enough that they should decline to declare yesterday a holiday throughout the University, but they must aggravate a bad matter by expecting the rest of the University to continue its regular work, and at the same time, giving permission through the President for the Office to be closed. The explanation that the employes in the Office could legally demand a holiday does not hold, since this is equally true for every professor and instructor in the University. There should have been...
...most expedient move has seemed to be the purchase of the old City Hall of Cambridge. The money for this purpose is to be raised, partly by mortgage and partly by bonds issued by the Prospect Union and secured by the real estate purchased. We speak of the matter because, in the first place, we believe that the Prospect Union does an excellent work and that every plan looking to the enlargement of this work is worthy of support; and because, in the second place, we have the assurance of conservative business men that this plan is safe...
...University Magazine is to be published shortly. Its purpose is to give graduates a full and reliable account of college news together with general literary matter. It is hoped that this will absorb the two monthlies now published...
...respectfully suggest that the Union and the Wendell Phillips Club give attention to this matter and appoint committees to formulate preliminary plans for some beneficial change; and I submit my plan to the student body at large, which has, unquestionably, a voice in this matter...