Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...anomily. It is true that we cannot all with Mill read Thucydides in the cradle, nor do we care to read Pilgrims Progress until the trumpets do indeed "sound on the further side." But there is a mean which every earnest student can and ought to cultivate in the matter of reading beyond the narrow limit of his courses. As the two prime reasons for reading are that we may gain information, and at the same time form a style, those reasons ought to be considered in ones choice of reading. Someone has computed that an ordinarily busy man will...
...that, in spite of it, prayers still remain compulsory, - yet the Overseers cannot refuse to heed the reasonable and manly request contained in a minor clause, asking that detailed reasons be given for unfavorable action, if such action be taken. We look, then, for a happy conclusion of the matter, or at least for a candid statement of the reasons influencing the Overseers, in case of an adverse decision upon the petition. Even supposing the present petition to be ineffectual in securing the desired end, yet the grounds upon which its rejection will be based will be invaluable as guides...
Again, as you say, let the arrangements be made at once; why should not a committee of students be appointed to draw up plans? or better still, let the Conference Committee take action in the matter. Surely this is a thing in which all professors and undergraduates should be alike interested...
...trustees of Cornell University having purchased the law library (containing 4,100 volumes) of the late Merritt King, it is reported that the university is to have a law department. The establishment of a medical school is also under consideration. The matter of the law department rests with a committee of the trustees, who are to report in June...
...advantages of a well equipped reading room at a very moderate membership fee, - only a dollar for the rest of the year. Many will give more than this sum in payment for half the subscription of a college paper, and expend many times this amount for other reading matter, while by joining the reading-room they might have not only the best illustrated and comic papers of England and America, but also the leading journals of these two countries, and the representative dailies of Boston, New York and Springfield, not to mention sporting papers and papers from other colleges...