Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boylston are the only places where any attempt has been made to provide proper equipment. In the rest of the buildings, the ancient mode of ventilation still obtains. Apertures are provided through which the air may escape, the warm air is expected to create a draft, and there the matter ends. Such a system is manifestly imperfect under any circumstances, and is altogether deficient in rooms crowded with students for a considerable length of time...
...reform in this matter may not be one that will stire any great amount of enthusiasm, or that would be likely to attract the attention of the ordinary philanthropist. The need of reform, nevertheless, is very real. The poor ventilation has caused much trouble to students in the past and is constantly exposing them to danger in the present. There is need of some benefactor who will devote part of his resources to providing in this uninspiring and yet fundamental matter, for the good of the students...
...suggested that it would probably make a very pleasant occasion if Harvard men and their friends were allowed to purchase as great a portion of the tickets for some particular evening as they wished to do. Mr. Irving and the management were favorable to the idea, and the matter was, by them, entrusted to the CRIMSON. It was thought to be the most fitting mode of procedure to ask the presidents of the two upper classes to select a committee which should put the idea into practical form. This committee have now determined most of the important points...
...committee suggest that if a very small sum, in addition to the price of the tickets, is given by each applicant, it will be possible, with the total of these small sums, to obtain flowers, or possibly, some other gift for Mr. Irving and Miss Terry. This matter will of course be wholly voluntary, and will in no wise affect the allotment of seats...
...supposed that some premature removals will be made by men who are regardless of all other interests than their own, but we fear that lately other men have committed the offense who are not regardless, but simply thoughtless. If such men once look at the matter frankly, they must see its real import and relegate it to sneaks...