Word: matters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...room - no matter where...
...pleasant to compare ourselves in this matter with Yale and Amherst, where music forms so enjoyable a part of the college life. At Amherst, besides a college Glee Club worthy of the name, there are a number of smaller organizations that serve as training-schools for it. What would the members of our Glee Club think of two rehearsals a day for a week before a concert, as is customary at Yale...
...just cause for complaint from students who have to dust those ugly black benches with their elbows, and who have to breathe close air. Such a state of things as does exist at present indicates that somebody is remiss in the discharge of his duty. We trust this matter will receive the attention it deserves...
...trouble at the bottom of this matter is, that some persons are possessed with the idea that there is no mean between officious independence and toadyism. This fact "G. E." has avoided. He merely says that popularity is the result of insincerity. If he will take the pains to look through college, he will find that the really popular men are those who maintain a manly independence, but do not let their tongues run away with them...
...instruction of Freshmen, or of those who never have made a study of the matter, we should like to state that an especial object of aversion at Harvard is the Gymnasium. It is regarded as semi-barbarous to go there, and we confess that we are rather afraid to own it, after having visited Lister's palace, and prefer simply to say that we have been exercising. It is allowable to take a pull on the river, or a stroll around the foot-ball ground, but during the winter "the thing" is to take no exercise...