Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this is a confession of their failure to educate the people in a very important matter, and shows surely that they refuse to live level with their own times. It is quite as possible to teach oratory at Cambridge as it is to teach chemistry or mathematics, and with quite as satisfactory results. There are to-day and here methods and systems and teachers of oratory adequate to the need, and if Harvard objects that these systems are fragmentary or unfinished, she has both money and leisure enough to take them in hand with her own chosen officials and make...
...recent criticism of public speaking at Harvard, which is creating wide comment. It certainly is not difficult to account for such a criticism. It is merited and the writer has far from overstated the facts as they exist. It has long been deemed among the students a trivial matter to pursue any regular course of voice instruction and the natural result is that for several years the public speaking has been as a rule execrable. The speaking at commencement would disgrace any other college than that one which so proudly holds such matters light. When to an immature paper, often...
...year than in the past. Every one looks forward with especial interest to the appearance of the examination list, as all are naturally anxious to learn in what order the examinations are to be held. We hope that the attention of the proper authorities will be given to the matter and that the delay will be made as short as possible...
...should be left to the mercies of the Cambridge rains and thaws is more than can generally understood by laborious students. If any member of the Faculty should chance to see this, we implore him to make this cause his own until something shall be done in the matter, which seems so insignificant but which really is very annoying...
...Tuftonian published recently an editorial urging the formation of a New England Inter-Collegiate Press Association, and asked for communications upon the subject from certain New England college publications. The matter has as yet been mentioned by few of our exchanges and it seems to us that the seed sown by the Tuftonian has fallen upon very barren ground. In other words, it seems as if there is but little necessity for such an organization between those college journals which aspire to some degree of literary excellence. It must be known to our contemporary that a Press Association is already...