Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gymnasium started by the undergraduates this year through the Forum and Student Council. The members of the class have shown their interest in the institution and the students by pledging their best support, and by recommending to President Lowell that he appoint a committee to carry this matter through. No one realizes better than President Lowell that the demand for the new gymnasium is tremendously strong, and furthermore, no one knows better than he how much Harvard men have been called on of late to give large sums for other purposes. However, the time has now come for definite action...
...committee took no action on the inclusion of Columbia in the triangular boat race with Princeton and Pennsylvania. The matter was left in the hands of the management of the crew and it is announced by the latter that Columbia will not race here on that date. The reason for the action is the narrowness of the Charles River, which will scarcely allow three eights to row side by side at certain portions of the course...
...rumor has been circulating about the University lately to the effect that the only marks returned by the College Office, beginning next September, would be A, B, C, or F. The truth of the matter is that the Graduate Schools of Applied Science have decided to drop the D from their marking system. This means that a man will either fail absolutely to pass a course or will pass it with a fairly satisfactory grade...
...Harvard Legal Aid Bureau will be established. This Bureau will undertake without charge to give legal advice, to draw up contracts and other papers, and to appear in court in behalf of clients. All this service will be free to anyone who cares to use it. Whenever the matter is too serious to be handled by the Bureau itself a capable lawyer will be employed...
...boards of the Harvard Advocate and the Harvard Monthly have held several meetings recently to consider the advisability of effecting a union of the two University literary publications. As a result of these meetings both boards have passed favorably on the proposed merger, and have given the matter over to a joint committee of 10 editors for special investigation...