Word: matter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...vote of the Faculty on changes in the elective system, approved yesterday by the Board of Overseers, is in accord with the principles which President Lowell laid down in his inaugural address. It has been a common rumor for some weeks that the matter was under discussion in the Faculty, and the announcement this morning indicates that the first step has been already taken...
...course, impossible to guarantee that any man elected to the place will always reside near the University, but by giving attention to the matter each class can be reasonably sure of having a Secretary who through family connections or other associations is quite certain to be permanently established near the centre of class interests...
...been issued this year and last by persons who withhold their names would die a natural death. We realize that to mention is to advertise them, and perhaps to encourage their further appearance. But this most recent issue has gone from the merely offensive to the rank indecent; the matter has now reached a point where suppression is a necessity. Such a sheet as appeared on Wednesday would be a disgrace to any community upon earth; it is doubly disgraceful in this place, where the baseness of the few has usually been restained by the good sense and high ideals...
...altogether natural that the persons who publish these sheets should wish to hide their identity. But it is by no means an impossibility to find the offenders, nor do we think that any amount of trouble should be spared in the attempt to do so. It is a matter which the Student Council or the administrative officers of the University should at once undertake. We believe that the persons responsible are members of the University; if so, expulsion would be the least severe punishment that could be indicted upon them...
...Athletic Committee is to be congratulated upon the action which it took last evening with regard to the readjustment of football rules. The necessity of some revision is only too apparent, and we are glad to see the Athletic Committee taking the first step in this matter. It now rests with the Advisory Committee on Football to suggest alterations in the rules capable of correcting the present evils of the game, not only in theory, but in practice...