Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter of College-provided lights, scenery, and tools, Stinson declared that, though these benefits would enable groups to present shows for less than $500, the University might "be taking too much of a burden, since in effect it would be going into the producing business...
...debate over whether or not the College should institute a uniform rent system centers around the proposition that any other method would be obviously absurd for Quincy House. Upon examining the matter more closely, however, it is evident that such a uniform system would do far more harm than good...
...statement of aims, the planning committee declared, "We propose a college which frees both faculty and students from the system which makes education a matter of giving and taking courses to cover subjects...
...than metaphorical. Institutionally Riesman has noted the resistance of universities to modern industrial psychology, to planners and adjusters and programmers, reformers who want to "integrate" the institution. The university still believes in the classical law of supply and demand, and it still regards its job as completely impersonal, a matter of filling the logistic demands of society for a certain number of trained executives and technicians, no matter what the cost in frustration and humiliation to teachers or students...
...principle. No less resolute than Mr. Churchill in 1940, the boys of Bicker know full well the consequence of yielding to that which is foreign. If Mr. Churchill was busy thwarting the idea of a Master Race, and if the Bicker boys now seem intent on preserving it, no matter; it is a question of principle...