Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Christmas numbers of the English illustrated papers have arrived and are full of colored pictures and interesting reading matter...
...What are the advantages some one asks. Many will at once come to mind. First, it will bring the whole matter into easy adjustment to the studies and recitations. It will eliminate a large part of the absences from college. It will dimish opportunities for abuse, brutality, and off-color conduct of all kind; for it is absolutely impossible for any of these things to stand before the traditions or in the atmosphere of Yale or Harvard, where the contests and responsibilities are confined to themselves. It may even save the contests from abolition by keeping their numbers within bounds...
...entire winter. The advantages of the plan are too obvious to need discussion, and the universal desire expressed each year that we might have a skating pond nearer college than Fresh Pond, is a sufficient warrant for the undertaking of the plan. The proper organization to move in the matter is without doubt the athletic association. The officers of this society have always been prompt to respond to the expressed wishes of its members, and I am sure the present demand will meet with no denial from them. Any ideas that any one may have on the subject should...
...since the converting of the school into a feeder for one college and the giving to it a sectarian character, alienated the support of the Phillips family, which support has never since been recovered, and the loss of which has cost the institution a great deal of money. No matter with what ostensible object such a club should be formed, its ultimate purpose would be to increase the size of the Yale delegation. Any organized action tending to influence men in their choice of a college would create an intense feeling between the partisans of that institution and the students...
...best athletic interests of the school. Therefore we are emphatically opposed to any scheme which shall pledge any portion of the school to any particular college, or which shall in any way tend to increase the size of the delegation to any college. Feeling as we do in the matter, we cannot remain silent. We would urge the men who have the movement in charge to carefully consider its full import before taking any definite action...