Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...company, young, virile, successful, is growing rapidly. It now numbers several hundred employees. The ultimate number will approximate one thousand. We are seeking to build with high-grade material, men who can become an organic part of this great company. Your education and training, no matter along what lines it may have followed, can be utilized and speedily capitalized. No previous financial experience is necessary. A week or ten days should suffice to start you upon a satisfactory earning basis...
...there were many men of almost equal ability on the squad, it has been no easy matter for Coach Lauder to choose his final team. Many combinations have been tried, and as a result the team has not had the advantage of having the same men playing constantly together...
...athletic proselytism which appears on the preceding page, and which has been jointly adopted by the athletic authorities of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, deserves the careful attention of every alumnus, undergraduate, and friend of these three universities. The fact that they have publicly adopted a common policy in this matter is in itself a most encouraging sign of the times. The statement has been phrased with the utmost care, and no one should be in any doubt about its real meaning. The evil to which it refers, however, is too subtle to be effectively dealt with by joint rules...
...Harvard Magazine's attack, which called forth the CRIMSON's ill-considered reply, there is a halfpenny worth of bread which should not be cast in vain upon the waters. The news writing in the CRIMSON seems to call for an improvement in style. The short, matter of fact sentences allow little room in which to go wrong, but they also make it impossible to be interesting. More color, more space, more frivolity, more careless handling of the powers that be--a premium in the competitions on sprightliness,--while revolutionary would give the CRIMSON more life. The proposed increase...
...review of the changes in curricula adopted by the American colleges in general as a result of the Great War, impresses upon us the fact that Harvard is taking a distinct stand of her own in the matter of scholastic reform. Other colleges are modifying their entrance requirements, or laying emphasis on particular studies of a practical nature; Harvard has reformed her system with a view to increasing undergraduate interest in scholarship. We cannot but feel that the University has taken the better considered course, and at the same time has struck at the real root of the problem...