Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale committee which was appointed in December to select a football coach has recommended T. A. D. Jones, Yale 1908, to the Athletic Committee for appointment. A special meeting of the Athletic Committee will probably be held on Wednesday to discuss the matter. The recommending committee was composed of V. C. McCormick, Yale 1893, S. B. Thorne, Yale 1896, and J. R. Kilpatrick, Yale 1911. Jones was a star football player while in college, and was also captain of the baseball team. He has been head coach at Phillips-Exeter Academy for the last three years, and has had unusual...
...read the rules, and were ignorant of the fact that they contained a prohibition of this very thing. It is futile now to blame the committee or the captain or anyone else. It is more important to make a fair and not too, harsh settlement of the matter as it stands...
...false light with other institutions. But there is possible a point of view even higher than that, which would consider the case in the light of pure justice, justice not of the letter but of spirit. The University does not presume to offer advice to Yale; but, since the matter is not yet settled, it may be worth while to set forth the attitude of Harvard...
Misunderstanding has arisen among undergraduates concentrating in the Division of History, Government and Economics,--Group III,--through misconstruing the purpose of the final general examination and the tutorial system. Feeling that the addition of a little extra work is a needlessly heavy burden, the undergraduate rebels without giving the matter any thought. To him it appears only that the Office is tampering with his proverbial freedom, forcing him to make a change in his standards--and his aversion to change is great, for he is a follower of custom...
...first indictment which included Harris only, the jury has been unable to come to any decision. This matter will be taken up again after the present trial of Harris and Reading...