Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dean is making an investigation into the matter of absences just before and after the recess...
...Sargent is writing the report of the Athletic Committee which is to be delivered to the faculty at their meeting to morrow afternoon. It will cover the whole of the year 1885, and will especially discuss the matter of the employment of a coach by the crew and the foot-ball question. It is expected that the faculty will then decide whether inter-collegiate foot-ball will be allowed next fall...
...large audience assembled last evening in Sever 11 to hear Mr. John G. Brook's fourth and last lecture on Modern Socialism. It was the most interesting of the course; perhaps from the earnestness shown by the speaker, as well as from the subject matter itself...
...improvement in pronunciation, in speaking foreign tongues; the excellence of original composition, in some of our English and musical courses; - all these are natural tests, and are also a part of the regular work of such studies. Such tests are, indeed, in many cases, already used, as a matter of necessity, by many instructors, thus proving the soundness of our principle in the very face of the present marking system. For no teachers more than these appreciate the utter inadequacy and injustice of the percentage scale, with its general average. Here, all feel the necessity of a coarse scale...
...will therefore aim at true proficiency, in place of any false, superficial honor. The objection will here be made, that scholarships cannot be assigned with accuracy. And to this I reply, first, that in considering a university's system of education, the assignments of scholarships is an entirely incidental matter, and should therefore be subordinated to the general policy. If the system proposed serves the purposes of the university, that is sufficient to maintain it, and to overthrow other objections. And, as a matter of fact, the few highest scholars will get their deserts anyway; and the doubt only rests...