Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such as has often occurred in English 2, and is utterly without importance outside of the classroom. Thus far the freedom of the instructor to conduct his classes has been recognized by University Hall, and there is no reason for the world at large to be concerned with that matter...
...matter of subsidizing athletes by assigning exclusively to them the working of various valuable concessions controlled by the Athletic Association was the one point in which the Harvard athletic policy was found wanting. Fortunately all taint of using these concessions as a recruiting inducement has long since been removed at Harvard by the fact that no Freshman has been allowed to enjoy them. In fact, it is quite obvious that under the administration of Mr. Bingham, the concessions have been operated with a view to reducing all the evils in the past associated with the practice. Undoubtedly the fact that...
...suspicion of evil, and the H. A. A. has wisely concluded to get out of what has come to be looked upon as shady business. Whether it has been altogether wise to place the management of the concessions in the hands of the College Employment Office is another matter. Already there has been friction between the two organizations of a sort which augurs ill for the success of the project. After all, employment is one thing and business management quite another and it is unreasonable to suppose that the two activities may be happily combined. The obvious method of securing...
...acting is uniformly good: the temptation to overdo almost never prevails. Frank Wilson as Porgy and Evelyn Ellis as Bess are perhaps outstanding, and the whole cast has sufficient vigor to carry the audience through even the slow first-night scene changing. But that technical matter was a very minor drag on the otherwise complete appeal of the play...
...Harvard, and the shooting began. As these things always go, people wrote letters to the News jumping on that paper for everything it had done, just as if, when you "let George do it", George had to do it the way you wanted. Nobody cared enough about the matter last Spring to object but now that class unity is to be broken up, things are humming. I should think the News would lose patience and start calling names back at some of its correspondents...