Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...made, that Venus rotates on her own axis only once a year, thus keeping one hemisphere continually toward the sun, and the other hemisphere in perpetual night. Hitherto it has been supposed that Venus rotated more than once a year, though the exact length of her day was a matter of dispute...
...your editorial Saturday morning you implied that the decision on the Yale debate was a surprise to the audience. This is true, and was due, no doubt, to the fact that on the question of bimetalism, the substantial matter at issue, the Harvard argument was unquestionably the stronger. Still, I think, the reason of our defeat is perfectly clear. The Yale men held that by the first half of the question the affirmative was required to defend a certain policy on the part of Congress; this policy, said the Yale speakers, would bring disaster. The Harvard men tried to make...
...communication published in another column draws some very pertinent lessons from our recent defeat in the debate with Yale. The first point made by the writer, while undoubtedly true, is a matter of debating tactics and requires no comment here. The second point, however, is one that demands the serious attention of every one interested in intercollegiate debating...
...there two teams arguing on what were really two different questions, but which could yet both be deduced from the same subject for debate. In order that no more debates may be lost by such disagreements as to the meaning of the question, some radical reforms in the matter of question must be introduced. The questions must first be framed as simply as possible; and some further means must then be adopted to insure that beyond any doubt the question shall be argued squarely on one interpretation that is agreed to beforehand by both sides...
...which of the schemes proposed for this end is the best, we shall not undertake to say. But it is the plain duty of the debating authorities of the University to take this matter carefully in hand and make sure that before the next debate, by some means or other, this matter of questions is satisfactorily regulated...