Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There seems to be little reason to expect any remarkable practical result from the step, if it be taken. As a matter of theory, or as a general policy, it would seem reasonable that the graduate schools be represented. That the schools or their incomes are suffering under the present management does not appear however. It is hard to see, on the other hand, how any real injury can result from the increase of the suffrage. Naturally enough the recipients of the Harvard degree of A. B. should consider themselves a little more closely connected with Harvard affairs than other...
...inasmuch as it assumed that they would be amused by the trick and while the joker remains unknown, leaves them responsible for the act as a body. That act I wish strongly to deplore and I write as a member of English 8 whose feeling in regard to the matter I have found to be generally shared in the course...
Promptness of action in this matter is of great importance. The signatures should be all in before the mid-years begin, and the sooner the whole mass of evidence as to undergraduate sentiment can be placed before the graduate committee, the better. It is hoped by means of the signatures to obtain still further proof, if any be needed, that the present members of the University would use such a club if they...
...Understanding that the graduate committee now in existence, which has the subject of a University Club under consideration, does not feel sure of undergraduate support, we wish by our action tonight to assure them of that support as emphatically as we are able, requesting that they give the matter immediate consideration, and communicate with us thereon as soon as possible...
...unanimously and wholly without opposition, though discussion was invited. Moreover the manner in which the speeches were received, indicated that the conclusions reached were not the result of a passing wave of enthusiasm, but rather of careful consideration. Deliberate judgment has been greatly aided by the fact that the matter has been so long before the college public, and has been so widely discussed during the past four months...