Word: matters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...five events on last Saturday than to have to go about begging men to enter. If we, the largest college in America, are not ready for athletics, I think that they had better be given up for the present. It is absurd to suppose that a few men, no matter how efficient they may be, can bolster up athletics if there is not interest enough to make more than nineteen men enter. Do the men want more costly prizes? If they do, there must be an annual assessment. Do they want other events? If they do, and will kindly write...
...matter of fact, if arrangements can be made with Oxford and Cambridge, our crew will go abroad next summer, whether they are successful or unsuccessful in the Yale, Cornell, and Columbia regattas. It ought to be the aim of our crew to establish their reputation, before going to England, as the best American college oarsmen; if they fail in this, they are bound none the less to row the Englishmen for the honor of Fair Harvard...
...know when I should meet the nicest fellows, as I go on the tramway - I mean, horse-car - been on the Continent so much - a good deal." As the entire faculties of '82 seem to be concentrated in an effort to meet only "nice fellows," I thought the matter would interest them all; so I told my young friend that he might look for an answer in the next Crimson...
...Committee on Theatrical Entertainments, to give shortly in Boston a series of two or three theatricals will, no doubt, strike many with surprise. Yet such is the fact. The difficulty of obtaining such permission has been so great of late years, that entertainments of this kind are almost matters of the past. Yet the Committee have been pleased to consider favorably a petition sent in by some members of Seventy-Nine, and have given their assent, imposing very few conditions. These performances are to be given in aid of the University Boat Club, by the Senior Class as a whole...
...early in the year to tell whether the employing of janitors and their corps of assistants, vice goodies, is a success, and we do not intend to fall into the error of making any bold assertions about the matter just yet; merely a suggestion or so will be enough. Some have complained that the rooms are not well taken care of by the new goodies, and there is ground for the complaint. True, there has been a slight improvement shown since the beginning of the term, but still we would urge upon the janitors the necessity of paying strict attention...