Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...every man see that his own attitude is right in this matter...
...writer accuses the hounds of running through yards, breaking down fences, and otherwise doing damage, thus causing ill-feeling to be arroused against the College on the part of the owners of the property. As a matter of fact, all of the fences scaled were as intact after the so-called "pell-mell on-slaught" of the hounds as before. Indeed, the whole extent of the damage was that a grape-vine was slightly torn from its fastenings and that a flowerbed in which there were no flowers was trampled down...
...building of the new quarters seem to be conspiring with equal equanimity to put off the completion of the work to the latest possible date. It seems as though the case was urgent enough to warrant the employment of extra men or extra time; but as a matter of fact, there seems to be no effort at all to hurry the work in either...
...close of last year's baseball season it will be remembered that there was no one on the nine exactly fitted to take Whittemore's place as captain, and so the athletic committee took the matter of electing one in their own hands, and that is how the case stands now. Nothing has been done as yet, except to refer the case to a sub-committee who expect sometime before Christmas to choose a head coach for the nine. He will take entire charge of the candidates until sometime in the spring when the nine has practically been chosen...
...whole matter of the sources from which are derived La Fontaine's fables is very prolix and full of detail. One of the greatest collections of such fables is Aesop's, which is intimately connected with the tales of the East. Another great collection is that in the "Jataka," which contains 550 stories of the Buddha's former births. The sources of the first six books of La Fontaine may be traced to Aesop and to Pheidros; from seven to eleven the books were derived in their sources from the oriental, that is, the Jataka and Bidpai literature...