Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Subscriptions are being raised by the Harvard Club of New York for a portrait of Mr. Joseph H. Choate to be hung in the club house. A committee has been appointed to take charge of the matter. The committee consists of Messrs. Evert J. Wendell, W. G. Peckham, N. S. Smith, James G. King, Lloyd McK. Garrison. A circular which has been circulated among graduates says of the plan...
...little of your space, I should like to make a suggestion. We are too much given to coddling our defeated athletes. This is because we are used to defeat, and take it as a matter of course. But it will never win a football match. We should make a decided difference between a victory and a defeat and in our attitude towards the players who contributed to each. There is altogether too much nonsense in the annual consolation that "they did the best they could," "they played a sandy, up-hill game," "they played like gentlemen, anyway." Why, many enthusiasts...
...CRIMSON is this morning reduced in size to four pages. This change is rendered necessary by the decrease in the amount of news-matter during the winter months, and the consequent difficulty of filling the larger paper with matter of interest to the University. While this might possibly be done it would make demands upon the editors which as students they are not in a position to meet...
...marked improvement before the end of the year they run a decided risk of failing to pass the course. If the trouble were confined to the 1.30 section I would be led to think it due to the bad acoustic properties of this room (Fogg Lecture Room). As the matter stands, however, this cannot be the case, for the trouble is widespread and has been noticed by every instructor in the course." This looks very much as if the bare truth, disagreeable though it be, were simply that the standard of the course is not as high as the instructors...
...matter has been carefully weighed, some definite conclusions must be reached. Every man having arrived at his determination ought to assert the right to trust the inductions of his reason. Let him be staunch and uncompromising in upholding the truth as he sees it and condemn the evil...