Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trial debate held last night to choose the representatives of the Sophomore Debating Club who will speak against the Freshmen was, on the whole, a decidedly creditable performance. The speakers displayed a considerable knowledge of their subject matter, and a very fair amount of ability in handling the material. The competition offers conclusive proof that 1900 is capable at all events of doing effective work in debating without calling upon those of its speakers who are members of the Union or the Forum...
...dinner of some 60 recent graduates, most of whom have been prominent in athletics, held in Boston Saturday evening, the project of forming a graduate athletic association was discussed. A committee was appointed to report on the matter...
...invitation has been received by the Harvard Lacrosse Association to join the Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association, but it is as yet undecided what action will be taken in the matter. The management has tried to arrange games with Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and Columbia. Yale has not yet been heard from and Princeton will have no team this year; the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and Columbia, however, have expressed themselves as anxious to play Harvard during the coming season, if they can organize representative teams. Until the dates for the important matches are settled no attempt will be made...
...objection to this book is its title,- "Harvard Episedes." A book with this title is sure to be taken by the outside public as more or less representive of Harvard life. As a matter of fact, it is representative of only "a very little corner" thereof, and represents this corner in a far from attractive light. With the exception of Haydock, all the characters are unmanly, snobbish, morbid or unhappy. That such characters exist in every college class is of course undeniable, but they are, after all, not typical of this University or, let us hope, of any other...
...annexation of Hawaii would involve serious political difficulties. 100,000 of her population of 106,000 are so unsuited to our political system that the annexationists have been unwilling to refer the matter to a plebiscite...