Word: matters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hope that the Athletic Committee at its final meeting today will seriously consider this matter, which has been in the air for years past. If it abolishes the system, the Committee will be conferring a great blessing upon the College in general, and the prospective members of the class of 1913 in particular...
...Union management has up to the present received comparatively few applications, we take this opportunity of bringing the matter once more before the University. Men who purpose residing in the neighborhood of Cambridge or Boston should not fail to avail themselves of the scheme through mere oversight. Even if they do not patronize the Union regularly, they will find it a pleasant place to take their friends for a meal. They will also be doing their part to support an institution which is the monument of Harvard public spirit and Harvard democracy...
...sport, or even to the Student Council, stating his decision and reasons, although it undoubtedly eliminates the possibility of graft, cannot cure an evil in itself incurable. We should strike at the root. The fairest and most effective remedy seems to leave the whole matter to the Student Council. Abolish competitions; let the applicants for each managership hand their names in to the manager; let him, after investigation, report to the Student Council decide, upon their past records. This plan has been found to work in other colleges--why not at Harvard? It would allow no room for personal grievances...
...forth today to decorate the graves of all heroes no matter in what war they fought, but the Civil War is naturally uppermost in our minds." General Porter than gave a short account of the war, stating the feelings which the progress of the struggle created throughout the North...
...final result of the shot-put is still a matter of considerable doubt. Krueger of Swarthmore was unable to make his best put in competition and unless he does considerably better today he is likely to lose to Little of Harvard and Horner of Michigan who were second and third yesterday. Talbott of Cornell seems to have a safe lead over Coy of Yale for fourth place and it is not likely that he will be able to increase his distance enough to take third...