Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trying to find some books in the library. All this cannot be laid to the riegligence of the employees of that building, since pure air must be obtained even at the risk of severe consequences; but there is no justification for the college authorities to pass over a matter of so great an importance, and one which has been brought to their notice so often, with such silent contempt...
About 200 men heard Prof. Drummond's talk in Sever 11 last evening. The talk lasted for about forty-five minutes and was intensely interesting. The lecturer said that he wished me to take religion on a firm basis and not make it an emotional matter. Such religion does not last. If the grand religion of Christ is put before men in the right way it needs no argument. Men would accept it at once without urging. He wished to speak of two subjects briefly. First, the intellectual difficulty which men meet with in religion. This difficulty must be settled...
These teams will compete together, and two of them will be sent to New Haven, but complete authority in this matter was given to the three general officers. The meeting then adjourned...
...career. If these men believe because men smile at their follies and do not treat them as their fathers did before they came to college, that therefore their actions are meritorious, they are very much mistaken, and have much yet to learn, although they are freshmen. This matter ought to be looked in the face squarely. It is not alone in the celebration of "Bloody Monday" that an undesirable spirit is shown, in other ways and at other times the same spirit presents itself. There are few Harvard men who have not heard fathers complain that the social system...
...sophomore class. Many freshmen, new to' Harvard customs, know no better than to accept the invitation, and when they view their belongings on the following morning, their standard of Harvard life has been lowered materially, and they begin to wonder whether this well-worn saying is true, "No matter what else he may be, a Harvard man is always a gentleman...