Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College there is hardly one where the seats are allotted otherwise than alphabetically; A's in the front row, Y's, and Z's, if any, in back. After all is said and done bout the student who is here to work deriving all possible good from College no matter where he sits, there is a distinct handicap in having one's name begin with Y and being relegated to a far corner of the room. No one who has ever sat in the balcony of the Chemistry Lecture Room in Boylston will deny...
...front at 9 o'clock recitations, and in back at 10, and so on; but this plan would not apply so successfully with the elective system. However, if a few more instructors would depart from the time honored custom of assigning seats now in use, it would make the matter more nearly right. There is little danger of so many of them changing as to reverse the present order and place the man catalogued under A in the same disadvantageous position as the man under Y occupies today...
...Class of 1913 has not taken possession of the Senior dormitories this year merely as a matter of sentiment or because some preceding class instituted the plan. The members of the Senior Class have come together in the Yard in order that they may all become friends and make the class a solid unit. To further this close friendship and class unity a new plan of interdormitory smokers has been devised and will have its first trial this evening in Thayer Common Room, where that Hall will entertain the men from Holworthy. The Smoker will last about three hours...
...from the fact that the Hymnal has not been found to meet the need of other colleges, and for many other reasons, the Committee felt that it expressed the desire of an increasing number of students in recommending this revision. Immediate steps will be taken to bring the matter to the Board of Preachers...
...points. First, there is not enough intellectual curiosity on the part of the students. Second, courses often attempt to cover the past so thoroughly that they never reach the present, and the professors' views on the subject. The student body should attempt to take the initiative in the matter, and co-operate with the Faculty in obtaining upto-date courses in which the professors have opportunity to discuss recent theories and problems...