Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tireless picking and pecking of Herbert Mayhew Lord, director of the budget. Arose, therefore, General Lord, hoarder of pennies, good storyteller. Said he: "Are we disturbed? Well, perhaps disturbed, but not discouraged. Down, but not out. We accept the challenge. . . . Expenditure will be kept inside revenue, no matter what the decrease in revenue may be." General Lord stared the deficit in the face, recalled the black days of 1919: "In certain localities it is the custom to refer to the year of the big snow or the great flood. ... I think our Treasury will always refer...
...answered in the negative, as it would be to a certain degree, anywhere else. Of course, there are places where more freedom in such unimportant things as thinking and such important things as dress and manners may be found than one discovers at Princeton. It is all a matter of degree...
...healthy thing for any institution, however, to have such a frankly self-critical play written and produced on its own campus, no matter how obvious that criticism...
...greatest surprises of my life came when I discovered that the library staff considered certain books, no matter how valuable as reference books, as too truthful for the students. It seemed absured that a college would take such a stand as to refuse an opportunity for knowledge to residents of the college, even though or rather because, such knowledge lay outside their field. I refer to the series of studies on sex by Hayelock Ellis...
...will-o'-the wisp when the builders of the report, who are either too safely ensconced in the best clubs to care about action, or are alumni like the Princeton investigator, decide quite humanly to let it go at that. Changes in any club system seem to be a matter of maturaration within the clubs themselves, rather than any yet discovered surgery...