Word: matters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that Memorial Dining-Hall has become a matter of personal interest to so many students, its management becomes necessarily the theme of many communications to the College papers; but, at the risk of trying your patience in the latter respect, I take this opportunity of noticing some careful investigation and their results within the hall, and correcting some rash statements without. In the Crimson for December 10 will be found an ably written article on the needs of Memorial Hall, embracing, in a general way, nearly all the species of complaints made by reasoning students; smacking, it is true...
...building is drenched with water from top to bottom, and, after three hours' work, the flames are extinguished. The manner in which the fire department did its work has been criticised, - too severely, undoubtedly, and yet not altogether unjustly. We shall not enter into a discussion of the matter, for in our report of the fire we have given sufficient facts to enable every one to form his own opinion. The firemen worked with alacrity and with unbounded pluck, but they showed great need, particularly at first, of some one able to give directions. It has been often said that...
...Association, we should ourselves have felt satisfied that we were perfectly justified in our action; but as the general public would never have properly understood our motives, it is as well, perhaps, that we took a course which will not bring adverse criticism upon the College. Looking at the matter in this light, we should be grateful to the graduates for what they have done...
...Yale papers publish a great deal of matter in regard to the withdrawal of their college from the Rowing Association. They repeat the old arguments about the inconvenience of a race in which so many contestants participate, and they expressly declare that Yale's desire is to try her strength with Harvard, and with Harvard alone...
...could have just one grand tabogginning party in Cambridge, I should consider it enough to persuade all Harvard men that Canada is worth something, for of course I could n't get much of a confession from free-born Americans; and for that matter I myself stick up for New England, as my "own native land," though Canada seems to me to be but little behindhand...