Word: affaire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last year the debate held was practically a pioneer effort. Yale, profiting by our experience, made the debate in New Haven an affair most noteworthy and most successful. Now that the debate comes again to us we must carry it through in a manner befitting Harvard...
Question: Resolved that the efficiency of the public service requires that no public affair take part in the management of parties or of campaigns...
...question was also discussed in regard to holding the debate in Cambridge or in Boston. The debate should of course be held in a place accessible to all Harvard men, for it is, first of all, a Harvard affair, but it is a question whether Sanders Theatre, with a capacity of not more than a thousand, would serve the purpose, especially as Yale held the debate last Spring in a hall of nearly four thousand capacity. No decision however was reached at the meeting...
There will be a big rally held the latter part of this week in Boston under the auspices of the Harvard Republican Club. Addresses will be made by Harvard graduates and the affair will be distinctly a Harvard one, though the meeting will be open to all. It will be similar to the meeting held in Boston, four years ago by the Republican club here. Tremont Temple has been engaged for Saturday night, and Meionaon Hall for an overflow meeting...
...cabinet officers:-(b) Excellence of judicial and diplomatic appointments:-(c). Great advance in civil service reform:-(1) Personel of the commission:-(2) Railway mail service;-(3) - Navy yards:-(4) Indian service;-Testimony of Theodore Rosevelt;-(d) Vigorots and dignified foreign policy:-(1) The fisheries question;-(2) New Orleans affair:-(3) The Chilian difficulty...