Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that he could not disregard their complaints had handed in type-written lists of inaccuracies and compelled the suppression of the book. He said that many other complaints had been received, but when I asked him what their nature was he admitted that he had not looked into the matter personally. He was also unable to say who the 'important persons' were, or to whom the book had since been referred for an opinion. When I asked him if, on a favorable report, its circulation would again be pushed, he said that he was not at all sure...
Reports of a somewhat vague and inconclusive nature come from Harvard University to the effect that there is less smoking and pool-playing, and less purchasing of reading matter as well. The returns are from the Harvard Union, and they may simply be taken to indicate a decline in the patronage of that large and democratic social organization. But the Union is representative of the undergraduate microcosm. Life in the larger world is more serious than it was before August, 1914. "The cigarette," wrote George Frederick Watts, "is the handmaid of idleness," and the diminishing consumption of cigarettes may mean...
...arrange for a year of study which proved ill-adapted to the needs of those who came might do more, harm than good. Some of our educational foundations or an individual has the opportunity of rendering an international service by making the suggested visit of Mexican educators possible. The matter is in the hands of Stanley R. Yarnall, of the Friends School, Germantown, Philadelphia. --New York Evening Post...
...honest and clear-headed student of philosophy would be forced to say of Mr. Russell, no matter how much he disliked his philosophy, that no single man is better fitted to "make philosophy a living interest in this America of ours which so greatly needs it." A bowing acquaintance with philosophy "in this America of ours" at the present day would have made it clear to the writer that exactly that is what Mr. Russell's work as much as the work of anybody is actually doing. A STUDENT OF PHILOSOPHY...
With Harvard University students representing 47 states in this country and 27 foreign lands, if the 4,724 students could all come in touch with each other on a basis of mutual sympathy and inquiry, what an educational advantage there would be in this cosmopolitanism! As a matter of fact, however, the mass of the students are as blissfully unmindful that their fellow students are lessons in geography and history and sociology as the mass of the people in this city are unheeding of what they could learn from their fellow-residents from other sections of the globe, if they...