Word: matters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...expenses of this year, upon outside resources, - boat-club theatricals, generosity of graduates, additional subscriptions, and the like, - and will, unless the receipts from this direction are most liberal, be seriously hampered by lack of funds. Where this poverty will be unavoidably and disastrously felt is in the matter of new boats; and it is here that the graduates can best help us, here that they can best prove the interest they profess in us, and best establish a foundation for the right they claim of influencing the boating policy of Alma Mater; for representation without taxation is as unjust...
Successful crews are accustomed, as the only means of securing a fast boat, to try several from the best builders, and then select the fastest; for builders universally admit that the making of a very fast boat is more a matter of luck than of science and rule. We ought to have three boats to select from, - one from England, one from Blakey, and one paper. Of these, the College will certainly get one, probably that from Blakey; for the paper boat, we can hardly hope; but the boat from England, where the building of shells has been most perfected...
DEAR JACK, - For several years there has been a good deal of talk about Harvard indifference, and I am very much inclined to think that there is some truth in the matter. At any rate, it has lately been my fortune to meet a number of gentlemen, more or less fresh from the classic shades of Cambridge, who appeared to be impressed with the idea that a display of interest in anything whatever was extremely inelegant. Their state of mind was not unlike that of the lady with whom I once acted in private theatricals, who thought that laughing...
...article called "Graduates and Boating," and it is as well that a word should be said to undergraduates on the subject while the graduates are being called upon. Among the other affairs of our University in a grievous state, may be reckoned a certain laxity about money-matters. The man who subscribes five dollars to help the crew, the nine, or what not, intends, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, to pay the money. He is not pleased, however, to be asked to pay it, and does not himself consider, nor do others generally consider, that...
Reserving the matter of greatest interest till the end, the Dean concludes his report with some remarks on voluntary attendance at recitation. After a number of tables of statistics concerning the attendance of Seniors, which will no doubt prove highly entertaining to the members of the three lower classes, the report closes as follows...