Word: matters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...college student should be required to be so much less fickle than the rest of the world. The sum of the matter is this, that there are very few newly introduced amusements that last in any community, whether it be a college or a city; and the college is justly liable to change its tastes more frequently than the city, because of the fact that one quarter of its members change every year. Men are surprised because there were only twenty-eight entries this year to the Athletic Sports compared with sixty-three, which was the number last fall...
Again, it being presupposed that we are not as simple in our conversation as a Memorial lunch, if we tell the truth we are supposed to mean much more than we really say, and so really and knowingly allow a falsehood to be inferred. As a matter of fact, the only way to convince certain people of the truth of a statement, as is well known, is to violently affirm the contrary...
...running," because it created a public disturbance. Naturally this request caused some excitement among the members of the club, and they felt unwilling to abandon what they considered a custom of long standing. The President assures them that the custom is not an old one, and there the matter stands. Considered purely in the light of an affair between the President and a society of limited membership, it is not a question to be discussed in a College paper; but there are many persons who consider that the matter - somewhat trivial in itself - nevertheless affects the relation between undergraduates...
...Boston University Beacon makes its bow before the college world. The paper is large, and the matter rather heavy, but good on the whole. We find in it an interesting account of the invention of a new process of telegraphy. Professor Bell, of Boston University, is the inventor, and "he is able to transmit the sounds of the human voice by means of induced vibrations in an electric current. The pitch and quality of the voice and the sounds of the vowels are transmitted perfectly, and part of the consonants are so distinct as to be easily recognizable. The Professor...
...sixes are mostly made up, and are doing a moderate amount of work. There is the usual speculation as to each crew's chances of victory, but as the men on the crews are changed almost daily, it would be no easy matter to make a correct prophecy...