Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard men, but we are repeatedly told that the graduates of the great universities must take a more intelligent interest in the political conditions that are facing the country. If this is so, it certainly can be expected of undergraduates to take the trouble to learn something about the matter while they are still in College. And how can this be done better than through a club, the object of which is to impress upon students the need of Civil Service Reform, and to extend their knowledge of the principles and methods by which this reform can be accomplished...
...Prospect Union team presented a s: rong and connected argument. Though they spoke with less ease than their opponents, they were very strong in rebuttal, especially in their closing speeches. The speeches of the Union were on the whole strong both in matter and in form...
...that it treats of one of the foremost political topics of the day. Much has been said and written on the Cretan situation, but the average observer feels the need of some more accurate information on the subject. Doctor Coolidge is particularly well fitted to expound this difficult matter. For some years he has made affairs in the East a subject of the most careful study and investigation, and probably it is safe to say that few men today are so well able to deal with the complicated problem. Dr. Coolidge is, moreover, an interesting speaker, and will be sure...
...good to see the University management taking up this matter of scrub and class baseball so early. For the last few years these teams have not begun work until late in the season and have met one another with little or no preparation. There has always, however, been plenty of interest in the games, and there is a large number of men for whom there are no places on the University or College nines, but who would be glad to play ball through the spring if the chance offers. The call for scrub nines has not as yet called forth...
...forthcoming number of the Advocate contains a large variety of on the whole interesting matter. Decidedly the best things in the number are "Roundeles upon Occasions," which have a good deal of imagination and flow, by Robert J. Collier; and "The Special Officer of Station Two," by G. H. Scull. Several shorter bits of verse are rather commonplace and insignificant. "The Teller of Tales," by R. T. Fisher begins very well but leads up to nothing and falls flat. The remaining articles are: Editorials, "Come and Gone," "Sympathy," by F. K. Knowles; College Kodaks, "My Neighbor," by H. M. Adams...