Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...expectations, natural and reasonable as they are, have not been fulfilled at all. Not only has there been no increase, but there has been an alarming decrease. Of all the classes now in college, ninety-seven has made the feeblest initial effort to produce a nine. Of course the matter rests entirely with the class. There is no compulsion in the matter. If they are willing to have their record the poorest in many years, if they wish to incur the reputation of being spiritless, they have full power. And yet the rest of the University cannot look on with...
...annual report of President Eliot contains some suggestions on the matter of athletics. This report has not yet been given to the public, but yesterday morning Dean Briggs read to some of the sections in English A selections from the part touching athletics. The president expresses himself in favor of college athletics, but believes that they are in need of considerable reform. He suggests that no contests between athletic teams from colleges should be held away from college grounds. He thinks that members of all the classes should not be equally eligible to take part in public contests, but that...
...entrusted to the students, there is certainly need of some decisive action. The maintenance of the custom should not be left to chance, but should be given into the hands of some definite person or committee. Otherwise, the temporary agitation in regard to the matter will soon expend itself without having done permanent good. It is apparently the duty of the managers of the different teams to attend to the matter, but if every senior class made some officer-the secretary for example-responsible for the proper preservation of the trophies and records of the year, the perpetuation...
...found at all and the baseballs won in recent games with Princeton and Yale are not in the proper case. The tables of Harvard and Yale records in track events alone are complete up to the present time. This is the result of personal attention given to the matter by Dr. Sargent and Mr. Lathrop...
...flags, and the purchase of the missing pictures. It has been suggested either that a rule be passed by the athletic committee, requiring all 'varsity managers to place in the gymnasium pictures and records of their teams, or that a certain sum be appropriated each year and that the matter be left to the graduate treasurer...