Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here it is that the Harvard Fund proves its value. For two years the money received through it has been turned over to the University with no questions, no restrictions. With each year more alumni find this a convenient method of giving. This is one matter to which the old shibboleth "No gift too small, and none too large" applies. The plan doubtless has its defects, but thus far it has functioned satisfactorily, and its increasing popularity points to future success...
Organization has become the god of those in charge of athletics. Fleets of trucks, card indexes, carefully trained players are all part of the machinery. And it is perfectly fitting and proper that athletes should be delicately handled. But debating is another matter, and the innovation adopted by Coach Rowe has merited a front-page notice in the Post. A training-table for the debating team has a certain piquant novelty: it is fraught with delightful possibilities for the time when the conservative orators of the present pass from Paine Hall, and the Freshmen and sub-Freshmen of today, brought...
...this might have been realized without the pages of comment in the Suggestion Book. But one matter, little dreamed of by the creator of the book, has occasioned the greatest violence of argument among the anonymous combattors. The locked door and what lies beyond; the weary forty steps up forty steps down, and back again: the favoritism show the attendants in this vital matter-this is what has caused indifference and urbanity to pass from the minds of students of History I. But the forbidden gate still looms: and Rome may fall, and Popes and Emperors rage, in vain-while...
...alternative presented by Il Duce is, of course, to replace the "intriguers" and "demagogues" by his own "disciplined" Fascisti. Once the premise is admitted that the latter are preferable to the former, the rest of the argument follows as a logical matter of course...
...Acosta, who later flew to France with Byrd, and ill-starred Lloyd Bertaud, who later was lost attempting the flight to Rome in Old Glory, were favored by Mr. Levine. Col. Chamberlin got the job because Inventor Giuseppe M. Bellanca, designer of the Columbia, said he flew well no matter how he filmed and weighed a lot less than either Acosta or Bertaud...