Word: matters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...National Football Rules Committee met in New York on December 22. As the official existence of the committee terminated with the close of the past season, the committee had no power to legislate in the matter of changes in the rules or in appointing a new committee, and the meeting consisted merely of a discussion of the experiences and experiments of football men in different sections of the country with the revised rules...
...Henry Van Dyke, D.D., of Princeton, will speak very informally at the regular meeting of the Divinity Club, which will be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the Common Room of Divinity Hall. His talk will not be upon any stated subject, but will deal with matter's concerning the ministry in general. Although intended primarily for members of the Divinity School and for men intending to enter the ministry, it will be open to all members of the University...
...York, it was voted to pass an amendment prohibiting college athletes when representing their colleges from competing as members of outside organizations. According to this amendment as adopted, the college athlete must hereafter elect to represent either his athletic club or his college, and his decision in this matter cannot be changed during the year...
Superficial plans for the new bridge were prepared in 1904, when the State Legislature, convinced of the inadequacy of the present draw bridge, and its actual weakness, authorized the cities of Boston and Cambridge to investigate the matter and to proceed with the construction of a new bridge, not to exceed $100,000 in cost, whenever it was deemed advisable. In all probability his improvement will be undertaken jointly by the University, the city of Cambridge and the city of Boston...
...speaker frankly admitted that in spite of all arguments, immortality was, after all, a hope. And yet, he said, it is a hope which reason compels our mind to adopt. Predominant over all matter we find that curious, spiritual thing called personality. Love, dreams of power, music, intellectual activities-abstract qualities which one cannot buy, see, not touch-all denote that we move in a spiritual realm. If these personal qualities-which distinguish man from animals-are spiritual, and therefore immortal, why should not persons be? To one who considers all the great minds and intellectual geniuses which the world...