Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's crew quarters on the Thames have long been condemned. Without adequate heating equipment and lacking in such necessities as sufficient showers and drying rooms, the buildings used present a sorry contrast to those of Yale. The importance of such a matter as a large enough float for the freshman crew is comprehensible even to those unfamiliar with rowing conditions. To replace the old buildings with modern, sanitary structures will obviously improve the general training conditions. In their excellent position on a bluff overlooking the river, the new buildings will put Harvard's athletes in quarters suitable...
...wheels of practical administration of the University frequently get well fitted into a groove and continue to turn in that same position, no matter how inconvenient the position may be for the student victims. This is the condition with the present hours of availability of some sections of the Library, particularly the collection of books located in the Fogg Art Museum...
Born in 1757, Gillray soon developed remarkable ability at caricaturing, and before his death in 1815 had come to wield perhaps a more powerful influence than any other Britisher not directly affiliated with a political party. His cartoons touched every possible matter of public interest; and as he lived in a period of fast-occurring and momentous events, to follow his sketches is to learn the history of the times...
First of all, The Bulletin assumes that the disapproval of the undergraduate papers has rested upon inadequate information rather than upon intelligent understanding, and mentions the CRIMSON as an instance. As a matter of fact, the editors of the CRIMSON have kept in intimate contact with the development of the House Plan and have founded their objections on consideration of all the facts which could be obtained by anyone from the University authorities. And yet The Bulletin's supposition of the ignorance of the CRIMSON indicates the jealousy which has guarded from the public much prompt information about the House...
...City Council took no action last night beyond referring the matter, together with the unopposed petitions to straighten and widen a part of Holyoke Street, to a committee for further consideration...