Word: matters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rumored that Dr. Noah Porter of Yale College thinks of attending the Beecher-Moulton church council, but it is not yet known whether Captain Cook will grant permission. The matter is under consideration. - Providence Press...
...perfect working order. The Company desires that its number of members be recruited from the lower classes, in order to perpetuate its existence, and it is to be hoped, now that the nature of the society is understood, that students who are at all interested in this matter will enroll their names immediately...
...obtains an office, and not because the office is not filled from its own number. It is this very conception that we wish to destroy, and it raises its head just when we had thought it exterminated. The proper class feeling, which alone should be apparent in this matter, knows nothing of elements or societies, but only aims to preserve the reputation of the class, and secure the ablest and best for the class offices...
...seems to us, is happy enough to commend the system to following classes. The system has theoretic strength, as is shown by the marked harmony of the class in its adoption, and, as far as one experiment furnishes a criterion, stands approved in its practical issue. As the matter is one of permanent interest, we shall be pardoned in dwelling for a moment upon the significance of the experiment to judge of its measure of success or failure. It is but fair to state that some doubts are cast upon the working of this system, which, like every other...
...admits that its remarks were abusive, but takes refuge in the strong position that "the only redress a gentleman can obtain from an abusive editor is to sue him for libel, or to administer personal chastisement," and winds up by asserting that "in all events it is a personal matter between individuals...