Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more large and elegant by the very fact of its on ward progress, so in the course of time will this mass of photographic correspondence enlarge in magnitude from the insignificant proportions of a three-line notice to the full-grown glory of a half column announcement. This photographic matter is an old one. It has been brought to the notice of generation upon generation of Harvard seniors. In fact we keep in type a full set of notices bearing on this subject, from the mild preparatory announcements which mark the entrance of new committees upon their tiresome task...
COMMITTEE.GRAND STAND. The proposed mass meeting for the consideration of a grand stand on Holmes Field, will be held this evening at 7.30 in Holden Chapel. If the weather is fair, and the meeting small, the committee who has charge of the matter will conclude that the college does not wish a grand stand, and no further steps will be taken...
...college are strangers to him. As he generally joins a society early in his freshman year - and sometimes even before he has entered, - mistakes are very numerous, and, once in, there is no withdrawal that is possible. There are cases where every thing is made a society matter. The election of class officers is frequently made by a 'deal' between two or three powerful societies, and the result is therefore a cause of much bad feeling...
...there were many things said which would not bear repetition, everything was considered to be forgotten with the close of the entertainment. A half century ago, in some of the German universities, it was looked upon as a mortal offense to refuse to drink drink when asked, no matter how often the invitation came. Refusal was promptly followed by a challenge to fight a duel. The story is told of one pugnacious student, who, being something of a duelist, and being well filled with the balm of German student life, jumped upon a long table one night at drinking bout...
...test the matter in another way, the catalogue of the publishing firm was taken, which is recognized as publishing the most representative list of American books. Here strictly professional books were ruled out, and the authors divided into two classes, the dead and the living. Of the dead there are forty-two names. Ten, or less than one-fourth were not college men. Of the living, we count 133 names. Fifty-one, or more than one third, are not college men. Of course, this cannot be called a scientific test, yet it approximates such a test, and shows with tolerable...