Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only hint of the crusading spirit, it seemed to this reviewer, was struck in the two chapters dealing with student religion and religious organizations. Was there a faint flavor of propaganda in the assembling of the testimonials in those pages? We dare not say, since these dealt with much matter that is entirely foreign to the Harvard scene, and therefore fell upon the mind with a singular noise...
...both of the higher squads, from the team which received Springfield's kickoff down, who learned football rudiment on the class fields. But the true importance of class football is in its availability to every man in Harvard College. Vicarious experience of the game is now only a matter of choice, where once there was no other. Within reach of Everyman, and probably for the last time in his life, has been brought the hard, fine joy of playing football...
...days later, quizzed again on the Willebrandt matter as he emerged from Nominee Hoover's office, Dr. Work said: "I am chairman of the Republican National Committee and I have conferences every day with Mr. Hoover...
...that settled that. In Washington, Nominee Hoover repeated to the newsmen that he "would rather not discuss" the matter at all. A Southern speaking tour was arranged for Mrs. Willebrandt, on Nominee Hoover's heels through Tennessee later this month. She was also scheduled to speak next week at a State convention of the W. C. T. U. in Kokomo, Ind. Mrs. Willebrandt returned to her duties as Assistant Attorney General in special charge of Volstead violations. While she deplored the position she found herself in, she said: "I suppose it is inevitable. I am sort of a personification...
...take my hat off to no man in this country in my respect and reverence for our immigrant population. I was born in the Port of New York and a large part of it came through that port. It is a matter of history and nobody has safely denied it, that the great immigrant population of this country did its full share to build it up, and certainly the great Scandinavian and German immigration to the Northwest was a powerful factor in the upbuilding of this section of the country...