Word: matter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Senior class buttons have arrived at last. The Committee has chosen a design different from the conventional diamond of former years and the buttons are as nearly worthy of the term ornamental as they can be made, within the limit of an article of such moderate price. No matter how ornamental the button, it is of no value unless it is worn. There is a definite purpose in having the buttons and now that the Seniors have accepted that purpose as worth while let every man decorate himself with a button...
...third act, did well to express especial acknowledgment of Mr. Wilfrid North's coaching. It was evident not only in the principals but in the many crowds. On the whole the acting, individual and concerted, was well above the standard of amateurs. This is all the more a matter for remark when one realizes that no more difficult task could imaginably have been set them than an interpretation of "The Promised Land." In comparison Shakspere would have been easy...
This leads again to consideration of the ambitious quality of the play. Its mood is the mood of poetic drama, but its matter is contemporary and actual. One is given at times a conviction that if a millionaire, instead of a practical but unmoneyed idealist were leading them, the Jews would follow as one man. So much of necessity has money meant to them. But then again one sees only the sublime doggedness of their one highest ideal-resisting compromise. The play in short sets one thinking, sets one contemplating a great ungathered people's fate as well...
...come-back" and his ironical "Yessir" are sure touches. I for one can stand more of Tobias. The telling, on the whole, is better than the story. "The First Prophecy" by Mr. Moore deals with remote things--early Britain, Vortigern, Merlin and the Druids. The chronology is a matter of faith, but the influences are distinctly those devices from some course in English. A good imagination and some artistry in words spent too lavishly on the impossible--these things make me wish that Mr. Moore would come off his mediaeval perch; his literary legs will stand firmer on the common...
...worshippers of precedent will of course object as a matter or principle, not of reason. The CRIMSON is not informed as to whether this has ever been done before nor is it largely concerned on that point. Neither is the CRIMSON aware as to whether or not just the same situation has existed in former years. If there is something to be gained in choosing the Secretary in this manner the class will do wise to accept this amendment...