Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first official statement that the University is considering action, Dean Hanford stated that "the matter is being given careful consideration by the officers of the University, by the Administrative Board of the college, and by various members of the Faculty who are most directly concerned with the problem...
...words and sentences, Critic Edmund Wilson has worked out the most intelligible interpretation of the book, supported by Joyce's own statement that, as Ulysses is a Dublin day, Finnegans Wake is a Dublin night. The long confused passages in which people change shape, the speeches that sound matter-of-fact but turn out to be gibberish, the flights, pursuits, embarrassing situations which are oddly taken for granted-all these are not mere plays on words or literary jokes; they are dreams...
Despite their enormous size, the new systems give off a very faint light. Harvard's finding of the groups was a matter largely of good fortune, resulting from the fact that an abnormally sensitive photographic plate chanced to be focussed on the objects on very clear nights...
Physically it would be impossible because even Mr. Wolff cannot command the knowledge, experience and facilities necessary to render effective guidance. It is more than a matter of getting men through History I. It is the problem of annually adjusting the lives and outlook of a thousand Freshmen to college conditions and keeping them adjusted. It involves close coordination of the Deans of Admissions and Freshmen, the Hygiene Department, the heads of Freshman courses, the H.A.A., religious bodies and other groups...
History I was singled out from the list of courses in which Freshmen tutor as the largest course in college with over 400 Yardlings enrolled. It also provoked the greatest number of objections on the grounds that "the handling or subject matter of the course was abnormally difficult and thus induced tutoring...