Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Throughout the period of time the nines have been working, it has been a difficult matter to predict anything definite as to prospects, as the work indoors is so limited that it can from no basis for a general criticim. The uneven surface of the cage makes accurate fielding almost impossible...
...approved by those who have considered the question carefully, but also that a course counting toward a degree would meet with favor. Further, Mr. Hemenway's liberal offer in guarantee of the expense that would be incurred in adding physical training to the University curriculum, greatly simplifies the matter, and will certainly help to hasten a decision...
...beside being assured of the necessity of giving all those receiving degrees from the University a voice in its management, felt that after all the extension is not going to make any important difference in the annual number of votes cast. This seems to be the truth of the matter. Whatever the actual difference from old conditions, it can not prove of importance, and Harvard can not be accused of being narrow minded...
...idea of the conference is to promote discussion on the various plans which have been proposed for adopting some regular couse of Physical Training at Harvard, and to discover how the undergraduates feel toward the matter. There have already been published in the CRIMSON a series of articles explanatory of the systems in use at other colleges. Some colleges for instance require physical training and give credit, others require it and give no credit, and still others offer it as an elective and count it toward a degree. Thus there is a good opening for discussion...
...Harvard and the lack of it at Yale. The illustrations are all very fair and the poems are cleverer than usual. The editorial on the new board of the Lampoon contains bright hits on the other college papers. But it is to be hoped that the introduction of suggestive matter does not mark a change of policy in the paper...