Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year, aside from the matter of attendance figures, has seen a good deal of agitation over what might be called the Chapel problem. In the first place, I wish to call attention to the fact that the attendance, especially at Sunday chapel, varies directly with the degree of estimation which the students have for the preacher of the day. Most students will not, or, at least, do not, come to chapel unless attracted by something more than a desire for worship. Much less attention is paid to the weather than...
...have long since learned that no case lies against the undergraduate because he does not attend Union lectures. True he sometimes allows the prestige of the name of the lecture or the lack of it, to influence him more than it should in proportion to the subject matter. And as it is very difficult to secure "famous" men for every lecture and as this qualification is after all, relatively one of degree, the subject matter of the lecture is the only consistent basis of appeal for attendance...
There are still about 60 Seniors who have not been measured for their Class Day gowns. To date 308 men have been measured. All Seniors who have not yet attended to this matter are urged to do so as soon as possible. The price of gowns...
...again the powers that be have calmed the world's fears of the Freshman Dormitories by disclaiming all intention of restricting their inmates; it is no time for even the most lenient of compulsory chapel requirements to be inaugurated, especially when the value of such requirements is a matter of doubt, and their importance becomes less and less as the problems of internal provement are solved...
...easy matter for amateur actors to gain the attention of such an audience as was present at the "undergraduate night" of the Dramatic Club, -- an audience that was at first as critical and unencouraging as young persons of twenty too frequently are, and that had apparently come rather to dance after the performance than to enjoy the plays themselves. The audience cannot be honestly said to have appreciated the merits of the first piece, Mr. Brock's "The Bank Account"; but it warmed to Mr. Kinkead's satirical farce, "The Fourflushers," and received Mr. E. L. Beach's war-time...