Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entire disinterestedness we do not think it right for a paper which aims to represent, in some degree at least, the best undergraduate opinion as well as the best undergraduate literary ability at Harvard, to embark on a red-hot campaign of bitter personal invective against the President, no matter who he may be, of these United States. Whatever he has done or left undone, no American critic seriously doubts that President Wilson is striving today, as he has always striven, to advance what he considers to be the best interests of the American people. Therefore for an undergraduate magazine...
...Senior executive committee referred the matter to G. A. Percy '19, first marshal of his class. He said that the class of 1918 was to hold a dinner on Monday evening, June 16, and was also planning to hold some sort of a reunion on Class Day. He said further that he would prefer to have the 1918 men join in their own activities rather than those of the Seniors. Accordingly it was decided that men of the class of 1918 will not share in any of the Senior activities. However, they may procure Class Day tickets on the regular...
...present day attempt to regulate students' clothes would meet with laughter and scorn for the force of public opinion is great enough to keep a sober and appropriate dress, but it is a matter of pride that the Seniors have continued, voluntarily, a custom putting all men on absolutely the same basis, by adopting a universal distinctive garb for the graduating class...
...determination of the credit to be granted, the length of service will be considered and the amount of credit made proportionate; but no matter how long a man's service may have been, he will not be credited with more than four courses; that is, twelve courses plus English A is the smallest amount of work acceptable for the War Degree. If a man's war service interrupted less than one year of study he is to be given credit for the maximum amount of work that he could have completed, had he stayed in College...
...current issue of Vanity Fair contains an article by John Jay Chapman entitled "Harvard's Plight," a renewed complaint against the composition of the Corporation. Although we were surprised to find such a weighty subject discussed in a publication which seldom enters upon academic questions, the matter is too important to be dismissed without thought or comment. Mr. Chapman declares that Harvard is run by State Street bankers and that they have caused a spirit of "commercialism" to pervade its former intellectual atmosphere...