Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Permit me to call attention to a matter which although seemingly outside the immediate circle of college interests, yet concerns the college as a part of the community, and which should appeal strongly to Harvard men-namely, the report and suggestions of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners...
...eighth number of the Advocate is really a good number. The editorials deal with interesting and important subjects, and the matter is well handled. That upon the change in the examination system at Princeton is sound and we must all agree with the author that we have a noble example in Princeton and hope that we are men enough to follow it. The other editorials certainly express college opinion except that on the Harvard-Yale debate which does not express much of anything. The first article of the number is a sketch of the college life of the late Samuel...
...libraries in Harvard and University halls, has caused considerable dissatisfaction among those who use these reading rooms in the evening. We have been asked to call attention to what seems to be a needlessly early hour at which men are turned out of the rooms. Upon looking into the matter it has been found that the doors are closed at ten o'clock by the yard policeman, who states that the hour might be extended to eleven o'clock without any added inconvenience, that is as far as the mere closing is concerned. Unless, then, there are other reasons...
There is, however, another aspect to the situation, which concerns Princeton more than it does us. Princeton stated that her objection to playing Harvard was a matter of consistency; that having refused to meet the University of Pennsylvania on any but an undergraduate basis, she must impose the same restrictions upon Harvard. She apparently intends, then, to arrange baseball games with undergraduate teams only. This involves a principle which ought consistently to apply to other forms of athletics. But we know that the various teams at the inter-collegiate meeting this spring will, by a vote of the association...
...failure of the Harvard and Yale baseball managements to arrange games for this spring is not in any way final. The matter is still pending and will doubtless be settled satisfactorily in time. The undergraduate rule, as it now stands, is a fixture at Yale for one year only, and is subject to considerable modification. It can hardly prove an insurmountable obstacle, considering the strong feeling at Yale against it and in view of the declaration which was made, when the first vote at Yale was reconsidered, that games would be arranged with Harvard regardless of the action...