Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...another column a member of the swimming team questions the advisability of giving a tank to an outside institution when the University has none, and it is quite natural that a member of the disbanded team should see the matter only in that light. We must not, however, overlook the fact that the Cambridge Young Men's Christian Association is an institution, distributing education and athletic facilities where they would otherwise not be obtainable, and that it is always worth while to give to the cause of education. As we have noted before, a Harvard tank given in this...
With prescribed reading playing as important a part in our present system of instruction, it is a matter of considerable astonishment that so little attention has been paid to the preservation of the more than momentarily valuable lists of prescribed work. In some courses the assigned reading is given orally, in others a list is posted on the class room door. Why not publish these bibliographies in the pamphlets of the various departments? Such a course would bring threefold returns: a wiser selection of subjects could be made by the student; an invaluable record, especially in those courses dealing with...
...most important matter to come before the association is the amendment to the constitution proposed by Columbia, whereby the date of the intercollegiate cross-country run will be changed from the third Saturday in November to the first Saturday after Thanksgiving. Several amendments to the association's "Laws of Athletics" will be considered...
...clearly understood that, as the committee does not assign the rooms within a given group, men applying in groups must be prepared to allot the rooms among themselves, and furthermore, to stay together regardless of any difficulty which might arise over a slight preference in rooms or any other matter...
...bursting of a water main in Harvard square during the Christmas recess. It is of course true that the Co-operative Society had a legal right to compensation; but private claims against public authority are too often enforceable only by tedious and costly litigation; and it is a matter for congratulation that the Co-operative, in this adjustment, has had to deal with one of the most efficient and business-like administrative bodies in the Commonwealth. We should like to have the members of the Metropolitan Water Board know that the undergraduates appreciate this action...