Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...once, set aside the "Harvard first" policy. This is all the more to be regretted in view of the recent strong agitation in favor of tennis as a major sport at Harvard. That the Student Council should summarily reject the plan does not suggest that they considered the matter too carefully. Constituted, as that body is, with a large proportion of its members being the Captains and Managers of the present major sports, it is not hard to observe their psychological effect on the body as a whole. We may suppose that these men are not deeply concerned with...
...valuable and desirable as some kinds of conservatism, the people of Massachusetts showed that the kind of radicalism that was offered them was not the kind they wanted; and what was more, they purposed to show the country just where the great mass of the citizenry stood on the matter...
...Fame and the Poet," the second play, has only three characters, Prattle, played by W. V. M. Fawcett '20, De Reves, by M. H. Dill '20, and Fame, by Miss Louise Jennison of Radcliffe. Prattle is, as the name implies, a somewhat empty-headed and extremely matter of fact man about town. De Reves is a poet and an impractical dreamer. Fame is an allegorical figure...
...There are three classes. The first can buy, for example, one and one-half pounds of bread a day; the second three-quarters of a pound; the third one-quarter of a pound, no matter how much money they may have. The first class includes soldiers, workers in war, and other essential industries, actors, teachers, writers, experts and Government workers of all sorts. The second class is of all other sorts of workers. The third is of people who do not work the leisure class. . . . The children are in a class by themselves: class A1. They...
...intervention in a country against which the United States has not declared war. America stands for the principle of self-determination; America stands by the policy of a full and free development for the Russian people, unhampered by outside interference--a policy which you, Mr. President, announced. In this matter you may have changed your mind, but America...