Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...room is a sail-loft refitted in an attractive style and is used daily by over one hundred men for reading, writing, smoking and playing games. Hitherto the reading matter has consisted of the daily papers and of such back numbers of the illustrated periodicals as were donated. The fresh current numbers would naturally prove more interesting and attractive to the readers...
...deal of opposition from the Yale Corporation and Alumni; several New Haven papers have also taken the Yale side of the question. In reply to the charge of antagonizing Yale interests, the assessors say that it is not their purpose to burden the university; that they simply bring the matter up as a test case so that the question can be settled once...
...could easily prevent all "scraps." General good nature prevails. Every man gets all the flowers he wants. Last year the two gangs that contended to put up a man for the "'96," though determined, were perfectly friendly, as was proved by the fact that the leaders finally decided the matter by the flip of a coin. This first reason for abolition has no weight, because obviously the pleasure of the vast majority should...
...encouraged too much at Harvard today, I think most of us feel that the display of wholesome sentiment is encouraged too little. The Corporation, I am sure, will not use their authority to ride rough-shod over the wishes of the vast majority of those most concerned in this matter. They will not destroy that which we regard as an institution, without having previously determined by an accurate vote that they have convinced a fair sized minority of us that it should be abolished. It seems not to be asking too much, therefore, that in this instance they permit...
...objection that the occasion offers an acceptable opportunity for the settlement of past grievances is a matter difficult to determine, but doubtless the committee has obtained testimony on this point, as positive as that which props their first indictment. Certainly the present writer in his generation did not go hence unscathed, but he is equally certain that the trifling irregularity in which his collar button suffered fracture was untainted by any ignoble motives of revenge. However, this whole question is one to be determined by the individual members of the class. They might draw up a solemn covenant...