Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ordinary run of newspaper illustrations has but little interest for college readers - or any other readers, for that matter - but the great effort of Boston's leading art journal, the Globe, yesterday morning, was received with all due appreciation by the undergraduates of Harvard, and must have created quite a sensation in the outside world. Perhaps the favor with which this venture was received may be shown best by the fact that over 500 extra copies of the "Globe" were sold yesterday in Cambridge. But really, this article opens up quite a field for enterprise. It could easily be "worked...
...matter for commendation that the Cricket Club is thus early awaking to activity. The attempt to secure suitable grounds for practice is a good sign. Aside from the fact that the ground used by the club last year was extremely poor for the purposes of the game, it is also true that the playing seriously conflicted with the other sports. That the club deserved credit for its unusual energy last serson is not to be doubted. We think, however, judging from present reports, that greater credit is to be won this season, simply by reason of greater energy...
...brain as that of some of the great intellects of history. Only two animals have brains absolutely larger than man, - the elephant and whale. If weight has nothing to do with brain power, we must look elsewhere for its source; we find it in what is called the "gray matter...
...consideration of a practice which just so far it exists depreciates the value of the degree of every honest graduate, to the more "vital" questions of plank walks and "muckers," is by no means a self evident proposition. Surely the value of the Harvard degree should be a matter of vital importance to every undergraduate...
...their sons hither they were running great risk in that vile free trade notions would grow up in their boys. As we all know, our political economy professors are free traders, but the impartial way in which course one has taken up the subject of the tariff, is a matter of congratulation to all political economy students. The skeptical and impartial manner in which work is generally pursued here is one of the greatest advantages of this college, and we are glad to see that the tariff is to be considered in the same true spirit. This commercial problem...