Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Monthly for February, which will appear Friday, contains some unusually interesting matter. By far the best thing is an interesting little sketch by S. R. Wrightington entitled "Fair Harvard," dealing with the life of a poor student in a Western college. It is more cleverly handled than is usual with sketches of the kind and deserves great praise...
...beginning of an agitation of the subject which will result in a much-needed reform. The board at the Hall, as the writer says, has for years been steadily growing worse and worse. The strange thing about it all is the general apathy of the students in the matter. Instead of a systematic filing of complaints and petitions, one sees only an occasional give in the Lampoon to indicate the least dissatisfaction...
After all, the remedy for the mismanagement of Memorial lies in the students' own hands. The trouble has always been that its members have taken Memorial fare too much as a matter of course,- a sort of necessary evil, forgetting that they belong to a co-operative organization which chooses its own directors and which can remove its steward for sufficient reason...
...management of the Harvard Dining Association is a matter which directly concerns more than a thousand students of the University. There has been for a long time a latent but growing feeling of dissatisfaction among the members of the association, which will soon find expression and must be seriously met and considered...
...exercises are one of the chief features of the chief day of our college course. Let every Senior, therefore, spend some time, even if it be only a few minutes, in weighing carefully the various plans suggested, and in trying to come to some definite conclusion on the whole matter. No one, unless his judicial faculties are abnormally developed, can make a reasoned decision concerning the best plan of Tree exercises on the spur of the moment in a class meeting. In a meeting of four hundred men there can not be much satisfactory discussion and little more than...