Word: matters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...though I shall always maintain that they were very strong. To tell the truth, the Goody did say something the next morning about "thim nasty empty bottles" - "nasty" to her, I fear, because they were empty - and the broken glass trodden into the carpet. And as I think the matter over, I remember that Jones said something about its not being right to allow somebody to go to bed alone; that somebody chased Jones around the room, and finally threw a boot at his head as he disappeared through the door. All this is a little misty; but what followed...
...interest in Base Ball for the Freshmen usually culminates in their annual match with Yale. These matches have for the lastfive years proved disastrous to us, and now it seems quite the fashion to tacitly allow that Yale will win the Freshman match, as a matter of course, and Harvard the University match...
...furnished in the Reading Room it would be very acceptable. The afflicted inhabitants of Holworthy affirm that changes in the "twinkling of an eye" from light to sudden darkness are no unfrequent things in that building. Cannot some improvement in this line be made by those having the matter in charge...
...have recently heard many: complaints from the members of '74, of the sudden disappearance from the College Library of the books which contained the subject-matter of their themes. It would be well for the favored few to remember, in future, that books of this character are reserved for all, and that their disappearance is attended with great inconvenience to many...
...likely to be unfavorable to us. They are interested in important social and literary questions, and would gladly discuss them in a college paper or magazine. It is possible they may be dissatisfied with us because we do not offer the opportunity. Let them, however, consider the matter candidly. The Yale Lit. is of the character proposed. As a rule it is "intolerably dull" - we use the Courant's words - in those parts where it differs from less pretentious periodicals. The same was true of similar magazines formerly published in Cambridge. Few read them, and they soon died. The reason...