Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college exercises will be resumed on Tuesday morning after the celebration, at so unusual a time as eleven o'clock, may at first seem rather remarkable, but a careful study of the programme for Monday evening will doubtless remove any questions that might have arisen in regard to that matter. Then, indeed it will very likely be a source of wonder, not that the hour was set so late, but that it was arranged for so early...
...election of directors of the Dining Association will take place this evening. This election is generally esteemed a matter of little importance by the members of the Dining Association, but we wish to remind them that the success of the association depends upon the choice of directors. Many are now dissatisfied with the quality of the food at Memorial, and think that the price of board should be raised. If that is their opinion, why not vote for directors and other officers of the Dining Association with some care? All who desire an exchange in the management of the hall...
...articles are written with a grasp which betokens a complete understanding of the questions involved, while also they discuss problems that are more interesting to the unprofessional reader than are most of those in the journals of a similar class. For in these latter technical points and little matters that are only of interest to the sincere student of political science become the subject matter of a whole number. We are glad to find that the Harvard journal is not to enter in competition on the same field, but striking out into new paths we feel that its success will...
...change which has been announced in the work of History 12 seems to be a decided improvement on the method in which the course has been heretofore conducted. The lectures have been reduced to one a week, the study of the period which the course covers thus becoming a matter for the student to undertake in his own individual capacity, yet aided by the advice of the instructor. Original research in historical work has become during the last few years an important factor in the Harvard curriculum, and although the method pursued in History 12 can hardly be dignified...
...will supply a medium of publication for studies in economic history, criticism and speculation, and for the discussion of the important questions of the day. It will present an accurate record of current speculations upon Economics in all the principal languages, and will reprint important articles, documents and statistical matter." The leading article is by Prof. Dunbar on "The Reaction in Political Economy," written in his lucid, entertaining style, it shows forcibly the transition stage through which Political Economy is now passing. Mr. Arthur T. Hadley contributes a paper on "Private Monopolies and Public Rights," which treats the subject...