Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gentlemen of the committee have the best interests of the students at heart, and are anxious to bring about closer relations between them and the faculty, we feel certain. But they seem to us to be needlessly timorous. Other colleges are already in advance of us in this matter of student co-operation, and that too when there is hardly a college in this country where such co-operation would have so little prejudice and disaffection to encounter as here at Harvard. The danger here is almost wholly that of indifference and sluggishness on the part of the busier, brighter...
...dismissal of Col. Bancroft, and deplored what seemed to us the hasty action of the athletic committee. Since then we have had no reason to modify our opinion, which we think is that of the majority of the students. We sincerely hope that, after a full discussion of this matter, the committee may be induced to make some concessions, as was done in the report on the abolition of foot ball. In order to present to our readers all possible information on this question, we have written to several gentlemen who have, during the last few years, been members...
Under the same head we wish to speak of the letter of resignation sent by the advisory committee to the boat club during the recess. The gentlemen of that committee say that as they are not in accord with the under-graduates in the matter of a paid coach, it seems but proper for them to resign. It is, indeed, unfortunate that a state of things has come to pass, such as to bring a difference between this committee and the students. Since its organization, no one can deny that it has given material aid to the cause of boating...
...reducing the exorbitant prices demanded by many of the tradesmen with whom the students most naturally deal. The society has proved itself to be of great use, and meets the requirements of the students in a praiseworthy manner, but nothing is so keenly felt by the student in the matter of books as their absence, and we cannot rest assured but that the recent delays in the delivery of ordered goods can in the future be removed...
...neat little volume commemorative of the late Prof. Ezra Abbott of the Divinity School has been published for the alumni of the school. It contains a short sketch of the professor's life, several addresses by different clergymen, and other matter...