Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officers' training camps. It was learned very early in the war that not much training could be given in three months, the time allotted to each camp. These camps might have been more appropriately called selection, or selection-and-training camps, as in every camp it was a matter of selecting the man best suited to fill the place, his teaching, training, and suitability having been acquired before he reached the camp...
...doubt can now exist that intercollegiate athletics must and will be maintained. They are the one means of making the University a unit. With so many students, living over so scattered an area, it is almost impossible to arouse a feeling of common interest on any other matter. But every Harvard man will rally to the defense of his team. A football game in the fall creates an enthusiasm throughout the University such as nothing else could...
President Taft, in his message to the University, speaks in this manner: "Indifference and even opposition will be met, but among you college men this must not be." In other words the colleges should lead in the discussion of this vital matter as they have led in such discussions through all history. If thoughtful men of the world are unable to reach any conclusion in regard to it and the whole proposition is lost in the diplomatic shuffle we shall be forced to admit that as our nation was unprepared for was so is it unprepared for peace...
...some results would be forthcoming from Tuesday's meeting in New York. Dr. Sargent, Major Moore, Percy Haughton, all have advanced their opinions. The CRIMSON, in conjunction with the daily papers of Yale and Princeton, has announced a program moderate enough to please the most conservative. Undoubtedly in a matter of such importance as this no hasty decision must be entertained; on the other hand the undergraduates deserve to be given some information as to the progress that is being made...
...communication printed below starts the ball rolling for some definite plan of reorganization of the Union. The solution of this vital problem rests primarily on the heads of the undergraduates. No matter what plan is devised it is essential to have complete co-operation for it to succeed...