Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the faculty in this matter was clearly injudicious; for it will discourage a great many men who intended to take the course. It will not add any interest to the study; and it must certainly hamper the work of the new instructor...
...measures against even those students who have great need of easy access to the less frequently used reference books. The trouble arises mainly from the failure of students to replace the books used. In that way alone over two thousand volumes were lost track of last year, - a serious matter indeed in a library taxed as heavily in other directions as ours...
...rush, resulting in the complete annihilation of the officious sophomore class, had danced in the happy imaginations of the verdant freshmen. But the president and faculty, with prudent foresight, anticipated the results of an evening meeting and told the committee appointed by the freshmen to take charge of the matter, that the meeting must be held in the afternoon. This is, of course, a sore disappointment to the entire sophomore class and many of the upperclassmen, but doubtless it is better that in the future, freshman class meetings be held in comparative quiet, without that boisterous din with which...
POSITION OF COLLEGE MENin the matter, there is a very erroneous, though popular, impression abroad. College men, certainly Harvard men, do not shun politics as a pestilence, as an unclean thing. They seek for a career which will give them a livelihood; the only offer of politics is uncertainty. It is said that our political affairs are being controlled by the wealthy classes. If that is so, it is because only wealthy men, or men of means, can afford to devote their time to the public service. On the other hand, it is commonly said that the majority of Harvard...
...successful. As for the study of elocution, no one need shrink from undertaking it because too much labor would be required of him. Preparation, of course, is necessary if any success is to be gained, but one can always proportion his work so that he can profit something, no matter how little that may be. That oft-given reason, too much work, does not apply to the question at point...