Word: matters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...matter now stands, it is unfair to the nominees because many men signed the petitions merely from a mistaken idea of obligation to the man, or to be rid of the canvasser, although they do not intend to vote for the men thus nominated. It is unfair to the class because it may result in the election of men to whom the majority are opposed, to avoid which they left the work to the Committee on Class Day Elections...
...unless he believes they are true. I am convinced that they are false and that the real basis for them is that we were beaten when we expected to win. If the coaches had succeeded in defeating Yale we should have heard little or nothing about favoritism, as a matter of fact, the feeling I have referred to was much less pronounced after the Yale game than it had been just after the Pennsylvania game, and the change in sentiment was due to the fact that the eleven played better against Yale than any one had expected...
...sufficient interest is shown to warrant the undertaking an association football club will be formed at once and the matter of joining the Massachusetts league discussed...
...your issue of Friday last you reported a meeting of the "third year class" of the Law School which took action in the matter of granting a doctor's degree instead of the present LL.B., and you quoted editorially an editorial on the subject from the current number of the Law Review. So far as it yet appears the comment introducing that quotation, whether original or inspired, is not a true statement of fact. There is some question as to whether or not the quoted editorial "states the attitude which most members of the Law School hold in regard...
Last Saturday afternoon several lockers in the Hemenway Gymnasium were pried open and money and watches taken. The matter was immediately reported to the police and one of the watches was found in a pawn shop in Boston later in the afternoon. Steps are being taken to apprehend the thieves...