Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...faculty, but by the board of overseers. The faculty, therefore, have no right to wink at extensions of the recesses on the part of the students. At the meeting of the faculty, December 18, after listening to the report of a committee appointed specially to investigate this question, the matter of protracted vacations was discussed, and it was unanimously agreed that the length of recesses, as settled by the overseers, must be observed by the students. Just how this will be accomplished was not decided. It is probable, however, that in future such "infringements" will be punished in somewhat...
...catalogue for 1888-89 is bound in the color and style familiar to college men since '84, and follows, in the general arrangement of its matter, the catalogue of last year. The map of the vicinity of the college is inserted on the front cover; upon it appear recent changes in the residences of instructors and the addition to the Museums. The statutes of the university are changed by the insertion on page 25 of a paragraph stating the duties of the deputy treasurer. The rest of the statutes remain in the form of last year. Mr. Ames' name appears...
...Exeter catalogue for 1888-89 has just been published. It contains a good deal of interesting matter, and shows that a liberal advance has been made at Exeter during the past year. But few changes have been made in the board of trustees and in the faculty during the past year. George S. Morrison, of Chicago, was elected last June into the board of trustees, and he is the only man residing in the West, who has received such a distinction. The faculty remains the same in number but has two new members, Messrs. Fowler and Stone, who have filled...
...idea of the present condition of the glaciers in that region, where the decrease in size of the masses of ice during the past forty years, common to the whole mountain system of Central Europe, from the Pyrenees to the Caucasus, has excited great attention, not only as a matter of scenic interest, but bearing on glacial theories in general. Some geological work was also done in Southwestern England, and a few of the mines of Devonshire were examined during a hasty trip through that region...
...matter of instruction great fault is found with the fact that so many of the instructors are young men just out of college who are, as it were, experimenting on their classes...