Word: matters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sticking to the right if he would develop a character worth having, but at the same time I am convinced that to speak one's opinion effectively requires a degree of tact as well as determination that few possess. It is not eccentricity which is a matter of reproach at Harvard; it is the lack of manners and good sense...
...again seems a little odd that "she [Harvard] gave us no proper notification, official or otherwise, of the proposed change," when it was expressly stated in the challenge we sent Yale early in November, that we wished to play with fifteen men. With these trifling corrections we leave the matter...
...gives us pleasure to announce that Messrs. Moses King and Thomas P. Ivy, of the class of '81, will issue, about the first of January, "Harvard and its Surroundings," a book modelled after "Alden's Sixpenny Guide to Oxford." This book will contain about sixty pages of reading matter and fifty heliotypes and woodcuts, including views of all the College buildings, those in Boston and Jamaica Plain as well as those in Cambridge. The heliotypes will be furnished by Osgood & Co., the press work will be done at the Riverside Press, and the price of the volume will be placed...
...finally voted to refer Columbia's challenge to the Executive Committee, and to take an informal ballot to ascertain the sentiment of the meeting. On this ballot a majority voted in favor of accepting the challenge. The matter is thus left in the hands of the Executive Committee, who promise to arrive at a decision as quickly as possible. They will have to answer three questions: Can we expect to always so fix the time and place of the Columbia race as to make it subservient to the Yale race? If not, do we care to row Columbia every year...
While in the matter (not manner) of illustrations, the Courant copies the Lampoon, its items, entitled "Yalensicula," flavor strongly of the Boston Transcript. The imitation in this case is more successful; if the Courant's illustrations are not nearly so good as the Lampoon's, its items, in style and taste, are almost as bad as the Transcript...