Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hoped therefore that some means may be found to surmount this difficulty, but after all it is a mere matter of detail. The important point is that the undergraduates want a University Club, and are prepared to do what they can under the guidance of the graduates to get it. It will take time and hard work. Therefore the sooner a beginning be made the better. This particular sum would be a good nest egg, but the money can be obtained from some other source, if all concerned will really get down to work...
Physical Colloquium. The New Electrical Theory of the Constitution of Matter. Professor John Trowbridge. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...wish to call attention once more to the scheme which has so long been in the air, of forming a University Club similar to those which have proved so successful at other colleges, notably at Pennsylvania. Last year practically nothing was done in the matter. There were two causes for this inaction. One was the hard times, which discouraged any effort to raise a large sum. The other cause had less weight. It was an unaccountable feeling on the part of some of the graduate promoters of the scheme, that the undergraduates did not heartily wish such a club...
...expression of personal opinion pure and simple. It has no status whatever as an authority. In fact, were it not for the injustice to the individual Harvard men whose names appear there in the issue of October 2 we should not care to pay any attention to the matter. Injustice has been done, however, as Mr. Whitney would know if he had been able to give the charges a more thorough investigation. It is unnecessary to go into details. Every man on the list who is still connected with the College in any way has kept during the summer...
...speak, is a delicate one. In the first place there is no hard and fast rule for testing in all cases a man's amateur standing, and just where, in the intermediate territory between the professional and the amateur, the division line is to be drawn, is largely a matter of personal opinion. Certainly the best guide for Harvard men is the code of Harvard rules, while, as for the column in question, it can accomplish nothing without the support of public opinion, and next to nothing without the support of college athletic authorities...