Word: matter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fact that the notice in question was conveyed from my house by telephone, to the CRIMSON, after my sudden and urgent departure from Cambridge. I make this remark with the hope that it will spare me the receipt of additional anonymous postal cards regarding this matter. These in one way are pertinent, in another grossly impertinent. J. D. M. FORD...
...those men who will sacrifice a whole season of football or baseball for 2 or 3 swimming events, where time by the most approved stop-watches never exceeds four minutes, yet is by common consent of the legislators pronounced an extravagant mis-appropriation of time, energy, and gray matter. Lest such wholesale absorption of athletics be increased they have made the two-season rule...
This is my point--the vast and varied absurdities of the two-season rule, as now maintained. When this law was first made, it was tagged with the statement that it was reasonable because it would affect so few. As a matter of fact it affected a great many. Probation itself became blunted and worm-eaten by this idiotic rule. Does a man who has made a successful record in the fall in both sports and studies find himself better off than his neighbor who has competed to the detriment of his courses? Not a whit. Doesn't it seem...
...people the lecturer or the musicians would have but a slender audience. We are 10th to admit this. For we believe that many a student is kept away because he has learned by experience that it is scarcely worth while to take a back seat in a lecture, no matter how interesting, when every day he hears others without inconvenience. But we would not for a moment intimate that we advocate the exclusion of the public from lectures and concerts in University halls. On the contrary, we would welcome them most cordially. Nevertheless the CRIMSON believes that they should...
...Suzzallo, in his address on "Education as a Social Study," said that what we need in education is the establishment of a social point of view. The school is a secondary institution which brings out the best of society, and social conditions influence the subject matter of the schools. In education, two things are in opposition--the idea of culture, and specialized training. Culture must be relative to social conditions. We need to remember in education that teachers must be broad-minded and that thus democratic efficiency can be effected...