Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...schedule for the spring trip of the baseball nine as printed in the Boston papers yesterday were published without any authority and as a matter of fact were wrong in many instances. The schedule, however, has been nearly filled but it will not be made public until the time for the spring vacation is set, as all the dates depend on this...
...editorials are varied in their subject-matter and, with the exception of a roundabout and redundant column on the question of the "Annex." are decidedly to the point. Whether so much wit and humor is an advantage in the discussion of serious college questions seems doubtful, it is, at any rate, a little incongruous when introduced into a note of gratitude to the faculty itself...
...everyone as an excellent opportunity to complete a work in which Dr. Brooks himself was so much interested, and for which he was, heart and soul, ready to do anything that he could. The few extracts from letters of his sufficiently show the warm interest he had in the matter. It is especially appropriate that active work in such a memorial should begin with his classmates and their generous subscription of ten thousand dollars and promise of further support, should be a good example to call forth further subscriptions from every man who wishes to honor the memory of Phillips...
...have read your letter with great interest. The matter of a building for the religious societies of Harvard College has interested me for a great many years, and once or twice it has seemed as if we were on the point of securing what is certainly very desirable. I am glad to know that once more the young men themselves, who constitute the various religious societies of the college, are becoming awake to the necessity. I will do everything I possibly can in the autumn and winter, to help secure what is desired. Just what form this movement will take...
...interest to note what is being done by our athletes, as necessitated by the recent action of Yale toward restricting the membership of college athletic teams to students in the undergraduate departments of the various universities. Before making any move in the matter the Harvard Advisory Athletic Committee has decided to make as thorough a canvas of the alumni as possible. In a letter which Perry Trafford has just sent to a member of the New York alumni, he makes the following statements. It is probable, however, that the University plan which he speaks of will be modified in certain...