Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...university. Still, a cap and gown would not only prove as good a means of distinction but would also be much more in keeping with the occasion and its associations than the conventional dress suit. If there be interest enough, cannot the class-day committee take the matter in hand and call a meeting of the class to take action upon...
Yale has seen fit to overrule the opinions of her most prominent base-ball men, and to accept those of her boating men and ten-year graduates, thereby placing herself in an unenviable light before the eyes of other large colleges. As the matter stands now, it seems to have narrowed down to one of two disagreeable alternatives: either that Yale desires to emulate the big boy in the primary class and have a chance to "lick" all the little boys without interference; or, as the Courant fitly says, Yale men "are altogether too prone to imagine other colleges prejudiced...
What Harvard will do in the matter remains to be seen. Another mass meeting will certainly be held to decide what shall be done; and Princeton also must be heard from before we can do anything. Now, indeed, O Yalensians, have we cause for plotting. Shall we return to the fold or form a league with Columbia and allow Yale to win the championship of nothing? Wait...
...glad to see the new bulletin boards in Hollis and Stoughton - yes, and one in each entry even. Not that such a trivial matter as the existence of four bulletin boards, more or less, would cause such great joy to our hearts; but this change for the better is an omen, a presage of future improvements. For where little things do not escape the eye, there we may be sure that the big things are not neglected. When we see such a slight evil as the lack of bulletin boards in two buildings remedied, what shall not our hopes...
...skating park close at hand is very attractive, but it is scarcely possible to put it into practice this winter, it is now so late in the season. Therefore let the directors of the H. A. A. and the officers of the Base-ball Association talk the matter over and see to it that proper arrangements be made before next winter for the sport. In the first place Holmes field should be fenced in on the west side as it is on the south, in order that the ice may be used by students only and by them on presentation...