Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Even the most normally complacent and unobserving of Harvard's dripping sons would respond instantly to the suggestion, no matter how veiled or subtle, that yesterday was an exceptionally hot day. Many men, in fact, who had stayed in Cambridge expressly to study for examinations, found refuge only in what Professor Copeland used to consider in pre-war days the most thoroughly established of all Harvard undergraduate activities, namely, "sitting around...
...however, enlistment lags in such fashion that the Marine authorities see fit to issue a second appeal, the whole matter assumes a different aspect. It then becomes no less than a duty for college men, especially such as would otherwise spend, a comparatively useless summer in white flannels at the seashore, to look up the Marine recruiting Sergeant on Tremont Row, opp. Scollaly Square, and obtain, all further details with a view to signing...
...Franco-Prussian War, France pleaded in vain. Two of her fairest provinces were torn from her and an indemnity imposed which was greater relatively speaking than the one demanded today. France in 1870-71 did not devastate vast areas of German territory nor mutilate German civilian population. No matter how great an indemnity is obtained, it will never compensate France, Belgium, Serbia, Italy, and Rumania for the outrages they have suffered...
...meets all the outward indifference that one finds when he starts in on a business career. Here one can make a success in any number of ways, in athletics, in studies, socially, economically, even morally. But the whole course of four years is-nothing but one big competition, no matter in what field of distinction one is interested. Even the man who does nothing at all, must do that better than the majority in order to receive recognition. Harvard is no place for the mediocre man who hangs back. He must make his way in his own fashion, just...
...have been shipped overseas by the American Library Association's Despatch Office since its establishment under Dr. C. O. Mawson in the basement of Widener Library last June. Fully three-quarters of a million more books are still needed, for which purpose a campaign for the collection of reading matter will shortly begin...