Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vent to their feelings over some unfair play by roundly hissing the man who made it, However reprehensible his conduct may be, this way of condemning it is about as ungentlemanly as the unfair play itself. It certainly is against the spirit of the University. A visiting team no matter what its principles may be, must be looked upon as a guest of the University and each member of it should be treated as such. They may have no scruples against taking advantage of their relations to us to indulge in forms of play which would not be countenanced...
...Since it leaves the details of the hall entirely to the discretion of the Corporation, it is reasonable to suppose that something definite will be done. The one thing necessary is to convince the Corporation by a strong expression of student sentiment that we are intensely sincere in this matter...
...interesting to Harvard men because of the intimate relation of the author to undergraduate literature while he was in college. Mr. Fullerton graduated in '86. During his course he took an active interest in writing and he with a circle of friends who have been heard from in literary matters since their college days, founded the Harvard Monthly. The book "Patriotism and Science" contains three papers entitled respectively "On a Certain Danger in Patriotism," "English and Americans," and "Democracy," the middle one of the three being a reprint of papers published in the Fortnightly Review lot long ago. The book...
There has just been published in the American Statesmen series by Houghton Mifflin and Co. a new life of Abraham Lincoln by John T. Morse Jr. The book is in two volumes and is very attractively gotten up. The story is told in a simple easy style; the matter is of course interesting and it is well handled...
...great many men who have not yet sat for their pictures. Every day makes it harder to stir up delinquents and the time for doing satisfactory work is growing less and less. The committee has used all the devices in its power for getting men to attend to the matter and it has now nothing left but to hold up the facts of the case and urge the men who have not sat to do so at once...