Word: matter
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...contest is rather between coaches than teams. Whether this idea is correct, and whether the evil, if it exists, could be remedied by removing the coach to the grand stand will not be discussed here; it is merely interesting to see what stand Harvard will take in the matter. Last year the Athletic Committee considered the matter, and the Baseball Advisory Committee took it up this fall, but no definite action has yet been taken...
...write you in regard to a matter which was, I understand, recently the subject of comment in your columns, the conflict between a proposed half-hour test in Physics 1 on November 8 and the proposed expedition to Princeton on the same...
When the Dean of the College gave his official consent to certain students who wished to visit Princeton on the day in question, he did so, and he supposed the students understood the matter, subject to the following condition, which is of long standing: "Neither the Office nor the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports has power to excuse any student from any examination or other test that an instructor may wish to require." That is, the Dean meant that the Office would not discipline the students for the mere act of cutting or absenting themselves from Cambridge. Beyond...
After discussion of the matter with many of my colleagues. I am now satisfied that there was a genuine misunderstanding of the scope of the Dean's action, and I shall accordingly postpone to Tuesday, November 11, the half-hour test which would regularly be given on November...
This latter development of the agitation seems to come nearer the root of the matter than has any before it. The concensus of opinion, if there was any concensus at all, of the letters which followed Mr. Bok's attack on colleges in the Outlook last summer was that the blame for poor English lay, not with the colleges directly, but with the preparatory and even grammar schools. It is true that it was generally believed that colleges were tending to encourage other studies at the expense of English, but, as far as the principles of English technique were concerned...