Word: matters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...American Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee at a meeting held in New York Friday and Saturday finally adopted the revised rules for 1906, thus putting an end to all preliminary legislation in the matter. These rules were adopted just as they stood after the additions of the Friday and Saturday sessions, which are given below. There will be another meeting on April 14, when the rules will be ratified in their rearranged form. This, however, will be only a matter of form, for it was provided "that at the next meeting no changes be in order except (1) changes in wording...
...speaker then took up the matter of poor service. He pointed out that the principal cry was against the overcrowding. He showed that much of this evil is due to the peculiar physical formation of the island which makes overcrowding inevitable. Furthermore reports of the New York State Railroad Commission show that cars are run as frequently as is practicable--a typical instance being the corner of Broadway and 23rd street, where cars pass at the rate of one every six seconds, while vehicles cross the tracks at the rate of 32 a minute. The speaker asked the affirmative...
...pathway of evolution, and to each obstacle that arises the true law of being must be applied by the individual. In the same way our currency system has a fault which requires the application of ideal principles. For a quarter of a century this has been a matter of debate from time to time, but the discussions have not yet achieved an adequate remedy. The necessity is generally agreed to, but regarding the method of reform there is much divergence of view...
...first issue of the University Gazette was placed on public sale Saturday at the Publication Office, and may be obtained at the Co-operative today. It contains beside the University Calendar varied official matter including appointments of officers of instruction and government, and of standing committees; awards of fellowships; the granting of degrees; the changes in rules governing admission to Harvard College and the Lawrence Scientific School; announcements of new courses and lectures; changes in tuition and laboratory fees; additional clinics for the Dental School; the official promulgation of the bequest of R. W. Sayles '01; and a list...
...President and Follows have decided to establish a University Gazette, to be published once a week during term time as the authorized medium for official announcements. It will contain the University Calendar and much additional matter, including appointments of officers of instruction and government, and of standing committees; awards of fellowships, scholarships, and prizes; reports, of bequests, gifts, and other accessions to the resources of the University; and all acts and measures which it may be expedient to promulgate officially in order to give them full legal effect, such as amendments of, or additions to, the laws of the University...