Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee therefore feels that since it seems necessary to sacrifice something, no matter whether the election is held at a class meeting or as proposed, it is advisable that the class as a whole should discuss the question, and decided for itself. When the committee was appointed it was not expected that it would have to deal with matters of such far reaching importance. Moreover the time for considering the matter is unfortunately limited. For these reasons the committee desires to place the matter before the class, in the hope that some means may be suggested of obtaining the evident...
...plan for improving the method of class elections which appears in this morning's CRIMSON demands the careful attention of every Senior. The committee which has had the matter in charge has given it the most thorough consideration and is of opinion that on the whole the plan is in greater part well worth adopting. There are, however, certain practical difficulties to be overcome, and as the changes would necessitate a radical departure from long established custom and precedent, it has seemed best to place the issue before the class...
...committee, consisting of President Eliot, Bishop Lawrence, Professor Norton and others, has been trying to raise a sum sufficient to redeem the land and make a park of it. $19,000 of the necessary $35,000 has already been subscribed; but in order to make interest in the matter more widespread an appeal has lately been sent out by prominent men in other parts of the country...
...been stated frequently by those who have studied the matter carefully, that what the workingman of today needs most is a sympathetic friend, and a number of our students have proven by experience that these men readily respond to kindly proffered help of this sort...
...they were incapable of it. Harvard, try hard as she would, was not able to get out of that slow gait, while the Pennsylvania men were quick, snappy and ever active. It may be that the Harvard men were not over-trained, but something certainly was the matter...