Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of fact, the professor compared the style of the articles in question not to that of Gibbon, but to that of Carlyle in parts of his "French Revolution...
...political japes of a generation not yet extinct. But now the system has been perfected into "Government by Inquiry." Whenever a "crying need" or "shameful scandal" is discovered, the nation's legislators (especially in the Senate) go through motions which notify the coun- try that (though the matter may be handled by one of the 79 committees which Congress keeps standing for all purposes) the treatment will not be mere routine efficiency but something extra-special and significant indeed. Sometimes, if a sufficiently potent Inquisitor insists, an extra-special committee is appointed...
...Never Learn. The life of a lawyer is hard, particularly when he commits murder and is called upon to defend the victim inaccurately accused of the same homicide. This lawyer had murdered a lover of his own mistress. The whole matter was naturally distressing to his wife and little ones at home. Likewise to the audience, which was not amused...
...marked off in which instruction of all kinds would cease. The same problem, indeed, arose in regard to all members of the staff. whether engaged in giving courses or in tutoring. With the rising of the quality of instruction one giving of courses has become a more laborious matter than in the past. The students are more keen, more ready to criticize and discuss, and a course given one year cannot be repeated the next with as little preparation as formerly. As compared with European universities our periods of lecturing are nearly half as long again, and the vacations...
...club life and self support on undergraduate democracy he felt to be a dangerous subject better set forth without injudicious comment. At Harvard," he said, "it is taken for granted that a certain social status in the outside world is essential to election in certain societies." In the matter of manners he only suggested the state of affairs described by the widely touted Miss Cabot, and invested them with a gay cameradie. In point of morals, however, Mr. Duffus let himself pass judgement. His is the opinion, now becoming widespread, that the undergraduate is no better or worse than...