Word: matters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...likely that that state will be one of entire physical and mental repose; we shall be in harmony with ourselves, the ego, and with everything not ourselves, the non-ego. Our own personalities will melt into all other personalities, and our bodies will become assimilated with other portions of matter. We shall form parts of one great whole, having none but common feelings, thoughts, and volitions. There will, therefore, be no conflicts, no jarrings, no disagreements, no emotions, no passions. It is obvious that our nearest approach to this state, at present, is in our sleep. In our sleep, says...
...report of some decision so mutilated as to seem arbitrary, and out of the proper sphere of a college government, a very bitter feeling is produced, old troubles are raked up, and new stories get into circulation, so that often a very small fire kindles a great deal of matter...
...referee, and the provision whereby every boat leaves its water at its own pier, so that washing is done away with. The practical nullification of the action of the convention in favor of coxswains, by the proposition of Yale to allow colleges a free choice in the matter, we regret extremely, particularly as the deciding vote of the presiding officer seems to us, by giving two votes to one college, to have been unfair. Harvard, on general principles, was opposed to the admission of new colleges, but special considerations in favor of Union induced her to change her vote...
...present, and undoubtedly, if a better system is forthcoming, our Library will not be slow in adopting it. The rapid growth of the German department is marked, and to general students seems forced excessively, and at the expense of the other branches. Very naturally, light reading matter is comparatively rare, but fully enough can be found to take up any spare moments; however, as things are tending, the future student probably will look upon Baine and the complacent Whately as the favorite authors of his recess and leisure hours...
...different societies it mentions, will, however, lay us open to a grave charge, a suspicion which no ingenuity will palliate, - a charge directed against our sense of justice rather than the force of our intellect; a charge of unfairness. I have deliberated long before fully resolving to bring this matter to the notice of the readers of the Magenta. I know well how potent are the suggestions made in these columns; how eagerly they are read, and how promptly they are acted upon. But, fully conscious of the responsibility I take upon myself, I cannot refrain longer from pointing...