Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...call the attention of our readers to the notice of a mass meeting which is to be held this evening to settle the base-ball question as far as Harvard is concerned. The matter now lies entirely with the college, and it is for it to consider carefully and well the questions at issue...
...German is an equivalent for a certain amount of Greek is for the gentlemen of the faculties of our colleges - not academies - to decide. That the equation cannot be made with mathematical truth, is no argument against the approximation of the truth. Let us learn something in this matter of college degrees from our cousins across the water...
Several men are complaining of the cold temperature of the bath-rooms in the gymnasium; the authorities should look after this matter...
...literary attempt, and is, as we know, the motive which gave life to our old "Advocate," and the latter is a necessary condition to the success of a paper. From this answer we gain no warrant to say that college papers should be filled by anything else than matter written by students. But we are told that we all like to read articles by our professors and by well-known outside writers. True, but we can read such things in any periodical of the day; we don't need to take up a college periodical for that...
...Revolution as an example of the influence of Franch on our literature - evidence enough of this will be found in the work of the so-called Lake Poets. But on the fact of that influence I would lay stress, and consequently on the sequent fact that much of the matter and of the form - allowing of course for intrinsic difference of language - of our lighter literature has come from Paris - for instance, the kind of short stories that seems to be the prevailing type of American writing now, is, I think, almost altogether a graft from French stock, such writings...