Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter is sent to each Adviser giving information regarding the hours for consultation with Freshmen at the opening of the year, and asking for information as to the place where the Freshmen are to meet their Advisers, the summer address of each Adviser, and other related matters. Each Adviser is also requested to send in before July 1 the names of any Freshmen whom, for any reason, he would like to advice. Early in June all printed matter, for the coming academic year is, so far as possible, prepared. This relates chiefly to various form-letters to both Advisers...
...treasurer was elected for next year, the club voting instead to leave the matter in the hands of the Executive Committee. Because of the necessity for co-operation between the treasurer and business manager, who is also appointed by the committee, it was thought expeditious to leave the choice of both to the Executive Committee...
...expressed opinion at certain stated times of the year; new confirmation, however, of this result appears in one of the several guidebooks to the city of Boston, which states that the daily chapel attendance, in the period before examinations, increases three or four hundred per cent. Here is matter alike for the preacher, the prophet, and the psychologist. The daily chapel attendance at Appleton is usually neither so large nor so small as to cause exceptional comment; that in periods of stress and strain it increases to such an extent is noteworthy...
There exists a general impression that this is the great age of the individual. It is not. As a matter of terminology if a person commits a conventional sin, he is asserting his individuality against hampering taboos. But really it is a time of joiners, of mass movements, productions, and prohibitions, even of mass education...
...arrived in the nick of time, for the white flood had seeped up through the bulkhead and cellar windows, and Mount Auburn Street was snowy with the stuff. For days afterward the sewers were clogged, but this quality of the printed matter had its good side as well. The city officials said that none of the dirt from Fort Hill had packed so solidly and heavily as each successive load of Lampoon...