Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...example, she should studiously and at any cost reduce the danger to life and limb. On the other hand, the College should not watch her athletics with that kind of care which leads them to think their nervous systems the most significant thing in life and luxurious living a matter of course. A boy poor when he comes and poor when he goes gets a bad start in the struggle for a living if he has learned to regard limited trains, costly food, automobiles on the slightest provocation, and free entertainment in hours of leisure and refreshment as due from...
...from Yale, was not merely fair but generous, a courtesy which Harvard men should appreciate. The dates were settled without a suspicion of friction between the Colleges, and settled by men who did not question, outwardly or inwardly, each other's sincerity. This would seem, and should be, a matter of course; my excuse for mentioning it is its inexcusable novelty...
...foster a co-ordination of related branches of study. The examinations will be set so as to insure a fusion of the knowledge derived from courses, out of which may develop a broad understanding and proper correlation of the subject as a whole. These changes in the matter of admission, oral, and general examinations are all phases of the same movement in education in which Harvard has taken the lead under President Lowell's administration and represent the development away from a system of cellar education to one of thorough mastery of a given subject in its various phases...
...instructor is not always the only offender in the matter of oral expression. Those who have attended the voluntary mid-year conferences in large courses, can testify to the seeming faintness and vocal impotence that appears to come over undergraduates who before entering the room were making a very respectable conversational din. In section meetings, also, vocal incompetency is all too evident. Those in the front of the room especially put their questions in a muffled voice as of one about to expire, so that those in the rear are left to guess the subject under discussion from...
...fallen off during the last week in spite of the fact that as yet only a few more than half the class have filled out blanks. The committee will be glad to supply blanks to hose who have lost theirs, and urges every man to attend to this matter at once. About the same number of men have neglected to have pictures taken, but should not delay longer. The chairman of the committee will keep office hours from 2.30 to 3.30 daily at Hollowly 16. 1913. PHOTOGRAPH COMMITTEE...