Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Legislature, have visited the Annex to make investigations concerning the petition to change the name of that institution to Radcliffe College. They were very much pleased with everything they saw and said that the bill for the change of name was practically sure to pass as soon as the matter came up for action...
...Union has long hoped to publish a newspaper and this year it has seen this, as many others of its ambitions, fulfilled. The first number of the Prospect Union Review was put on sale Wednesday evening, March 21. It is in pamphlet form, consisting of eight pages of reading matter, a supplement of four pages, and eight pages of advertisements. It is very prettily made up and is excellently printed on very good paper. The Prospect Union has established a printing office and does its own printing...
...subject matter is very interesting even to those not connected with the Prospect Union. Professor Peabody gives a brief but comprehensive sketch of the "Aims and Work of the Prospect Union." John Graham Brooks has written short summaries of the first two of the course of lectures on economics which he is giving at the Union. The two other leading articles are "The New Trade Unionism," by Robert A. Woods of the Andover House, Boston, and "Social Settlements in the United States," by Mr. Ely, president of the Union. Both of them are interesting and well worth being read...
...have only the warmest words of gratitude for it. Alertness, enterprise, and sagacity have always been shown. any extension in the business, sanctioned by so cautious and able a management, will be welcomed. The successful application of the principle which governs the society will surely benefit the students, no matter to what branch of trade it is applied. The society shows a disposition to concern itself with those articles which most inevitably enter into the accounts of students, and it must be given a high place among those agencies which make for a reduction of college expenses...
...present themselves at this eleventh hour, and all men, who take a pride in seeing everything Harvard made a success, will share this hope. Let us speak a frank word about this. The Winter Meetings are losing their popularity and whether they would be advisable another year is a matter of doubt. The fact remains that this year they have been planned, advertised, and must be held. Men who could do anything at all in the different events would add to the success of the meetings by the mere fact of the zest given to competition through the added numbers...