Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speak or write a great deal about Germany without touching frequently upon the great subject of Beer. Beer is to the German what poetry is to the poet - the native language of his soul. No celebration of any kind is complete without it. No matter upon what solemn occasion a Teuton enters, no matter how exalted the emotions which flood his soul or how abstruse the speculations which engage his thoughts, he must be sustained throughout by constant communion with his froth-crowned schooner...
Such is the German bier kommers at its best, astonishing to strangers, morally revolting to those reared under the influence of Puritanism and yet withal far less harmful than one could at first sight believe. Germans view it with indulgence and make no such serious matter of it as Americans assuredly would. I have no wish to defend it; but it is a permanent institution of the fatherland, and laughable or solemn, defensible or indefensible, it is worthy of inspection...
...kind hospitality shown to the senior class last Thursday evening is a matter we take upon ourselves to thus publicly mention, not only as a sign of our sincere appreciation of the warmhearted interest shown in our behalf, but also because it is a token of the height upon which education is now dawning. No longer are we in college divided into men and boys, professors and students; but, to insert Dr. Hale's good phrase, the distinction is only, "You old fellows, and we young fellows." College, then, is merely a giving of the experience of the older fellows...
Competitors should have a friend send their matter by registered mail or express, to preserve the secrecy of their identity, addressed to The Railroader, Washington, D. C., and marked "Prize Competition," to distinguish it from other manuscripts we are receiving...
...matter was taken up with renewed vigor again, soon after the present term began. Arrangements were made for a meeting of the managing editors of the three papers before mentioned. New Haven was selected as the place of meeting. Mr. Spaulding, managing editor of the Princetonian, being a member of the foot-ball team, could not be present, and Mr. F. E. Reid took his place as a representative of the paper. Mr. W. H. Cowles, chairman, of the Yale News, acted for that paper, and Mr. W. T. Talbot, for the DAILY CRIMSON. After some discussion, it was decided...