Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course in an unrelated subject often fails to be assimilated. If we could agree on what should constitute a liberal education for every stu- dent who was graduated from Harvard and if we could test it, let us say, by a general examination, that would be quite a different matter...
Other Council reports have urged, and succeeded in making, improvements in the troublesome matter of insufficient room for all students in the Houses, investigated the dismissal of popular teachers, exposed tutoring school evils, and so on over all the issues of past years
Although the Overseers ordinarily convene seven times a year to approve (almost as a matter of course) the Corporation's action, much of their collective job of keeping a watchful eye delegated to the Visiting Committees...
...even less of a position to dictate to the Corporation than the Overseers in the matter of pulling the purse strings and hiring and firing is the Faculty. Although Harvard Presidents have made a practice of consulting in advance with the Faculty on impending changes of educational policy, the Faculty's opinion is in no sense binding on the President...
...matter of fact Harvard is more like a nursery than it is like the Wide World. It is a nursery of talent where every mistake but that of inactivity is condoned. If you throw yourself into the life at Harvard, a small replica of the world, personal and academic errors of judgment will not be too serious because of the arena's small size. But if you wait for a mythical stamp of Harvard to be impressed on you its life will pass you by. This is so because there is no recognizable pattern here, no definite ideal to conform...