Word: matter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...interest among graduates in this matter has naturally been keen and widespread. The alumni in every state in the land have had it on their minds during these months and the possible men have been gone over thoroughly. President Eliot has gone on record as favoring a young and vigorous man who can shoulder the continuous and heavy work which the office involves. When President Eliot was inaugurated in 1869 he was only 35 years old and the Corporation has shown its fearlessness of comparative youth recently in appointing a new dean for the Medical School who is 32. Many...
...body has not taken a more interested part in the discussion relating to a successor. Some would even have the undergraduates make public their choice and give the Corporation the benefit of their decision. The CRIMSON feels that there might well be more thought and discussion given to the matter by the undergraduates. It is a topic which has a vital bearing on them, not only while they are still in the University, but more particularly after they have graduated and are viewing the affairs of Harvard from the standpoint of an alumnus...
...have prided ourselves at various times on our worthy endeavors in this direction but the more one investigates the matter the more he is convinced that we have just made a good beginning and that there is still much to be done. In some of the sports it has not been proven as yet that the best arrangement has been secured which will assure success to both the University team and the scrub teams but the solution will eventually be found. The Leiter cup baseball series has always been popular and the dormitory rowing races as well as the handicap...
...matter of elections in the years previous to the last, the figures are also instructive. Each class starts out fairly well with a vote of about 60 per cent. for its Freshman officers. The largest vote cast for any class election was by the present Junior class in their Freshman year when 433 votes were cast. This good record was slightly marred in the Sophomore year when the vote was about 3 per cent. smaller and it was entirely spoiled in the elections this fall when only 232 men voted. A similar dropping off each year with a large decrease...
...experimenting with the European plan, the directors of Memorial Hall have decided to propose the adoption of the American plan to the members of the dining association and a vote will be taken on this proposition today. Nobody seems to be able to find out just what is the matter with Memorial or in fact what has been the matter for the past few years. Different directorates have proposed different remedies, new schemes have been tried and generally discarded as unsatisfactory after a few weeks' trial, and the price of board has fluctuated during all these proceedings more violently than...