Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...assigned for this: first, that the persons in charge can not come to an agreement as to how the trees should be treated, and second, lack of funds. It seems to me that if those in charge can not agree it would be well for them to submit the matter to some recognized authority on the subject, and I feel sure that if word were sent out to the alumni that the trees in the Yard were in danger of extermination, money enough would be raised to save all the elms in the state of Massachusetts. Yours very truly, WILLIAM...
...leading article, "The Economics of Student Aid" by C. S. Collier '11, is an application of the issue between individualism and socialism to a matter that is immediately before us. Mr. Collier suggests, as an individualistic remedy, that capital might be invested in the education of promising material, as the basis of a profit to the investor. There are numerous objections to which the writer does not pay their due, such, for example as the necessity of charging a usurious rate of interest in lieu of security. But there is much by the way that is pertinent and illuminating...
...Cole's contribution, on "The Glory of Football," is somewhat too subtly scornful to have the effect he intends, though it may help to correct the lack of humor and proportion with which this matter is commonly viewed. Even the editor of the "Illustrated" feels called upon to justify the publication of a criticism of football! Both Mr. Cole and W. Lippmann '10, who writes a sympathetic letter, dwell on the spectator's aspect of football, while J. Waid '10 replies with the familiar indorsement of the game as a school for the manly virtues. But the whole discussion loses...
...whole, it is more fun to write about the current Advocate than to read it. Still, there is this to be said on the matter, from the editor's point of view: the number introduces, in an attractive way, a subject of real importance to undergraduates: and as for the rest of the issue, the motto, "Sat est. scripsisse" is a sufficiently good slogan with which to challenge one's contemporaries
...Secretary, who serve ex-officiis. The work of the Class Committee commences on the day of graduation, after which it has charge of all affairs of the class throughout its life. The duty of the Committee is to make arrangements for all class reunions, gifts, and al matter representative of the class as a whole...