Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Conant any right to attempt to curb student interest in the social sciences by reducing the personnel in that field? Is the uniform conservatism of the Harvard economic faculty a matter of policy or coincidence? In either case, is it damaging to the university? Should a university president respect the views of his leading faculty members, or is he justified in following only the dictates of his own opinions? In the course of such an examination we may run squarely into the question of whether, as an individual, President Conant is the right sort to manage...
Thus it was that when Iowa's votes were counted, it seemed to matter little that a lot of other candidates were nominated for a lot of other offices; that former Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson beat Representative Lloyd Thurston for the Republican nomination for Senator. Looming with a significance precisely equal to what others of other States might read into it was the Democratic Senatorial result: Gillette over Wearift by about 2-to-1. Three other Democratic candidates polled negligible votes...
...Hankow last week, nervous Government officials, believing the city's fall a matter of weeks, packed their families off to remote cities in southwestern China, started shipping Government archives and nonessential equipment to Chungking, officially the seat of the Government. Kweiyang, in Kweichow Province, and Yiin-nanfu, capital of Yunnan, only 400 miles from the Tibetan frontier...
...worrying done at examination time is not about the subject matter of the courses but about the Best Way of reaching peak mental efficiency at nine-fifteen on hot morning...
More serious than this deterioration in the internal set-up of the teams is the infection of national and international issues into the games. This also can be attributed largely to oversized teams and multitudinous events. Patriotism and prejudice would be found no matter how few the contestants, but when a team numbers well into the hundreds, its success becokes a matter of real national prestige. For too many countries national prestige no longer is based on honesty and sportsmanship, and these countries carry their ideas of prestige into athletics where honesty and sportsmanship reign supreme. Hitler's treatment...