Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion, does write verse which at least scans, has contributed some doggerel which smells of the Rotunde and of which this particularly gifted critic cannot decipher so much as a line. One of its verses begins with a comma. It doesn't really seem to matter...
Reparations and the Allied Debts had been a matter of concern to him since the close of the war, and he, in the role of adviser to President Wilson, was largely responsible for introducing a note of sanity into estimates made at Versailles by the apostles of the revanche. The American observers and officials connected with the operation of the Dawes Plan have retied upon him constantly, for advice...
...reason for any conflict between the Fundamentalist and the Modernist or scientific point of view, nor should belief in one theory necessarily force us to reject the other. Belief is a matter of faith, and I believe If you will pardon me for saying it, my belief is not a theory. It is a living truth. I would as soon think of denying the reality of the sunlight Why argue with darkness...
This innovation is to supplement, not replace the old system of collegiate education. To merely recognizes the fact that it should not exclude the arts but join with them in reducing collegiate thought to a mean of common sense. Any sentimental traditions, no matter how venerable, that exclude from the college curriculum, all but scholastic abstractions untainted by the leprous touch of realism, should never stand in the way of such additions as this...
Already the matter of September admission second in importance in this part of the Dean's report, has been discussed and disposed of. Apparently there is nothing left but a consideration of Mr. Hanford's class number three, that of men submitting low admission records. Crucial point that it is, this problem deserves all possible attention; all other explanations of the phenomenon of unsatisfactory college work lead inevitably to the advisability of admitting men with dubious records. No scurrying about after secondary effects should be allowed to distract the attention of those committed to seeing that the right...