Word: offered
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: "Resolved, That the Cubanins urgents should accept Spain's offer of autonomy...
...Harvard Forum will hold a trial debate for membership in Sever 11, Wednesday evening, January 12, at 7.30 o'clock. The subject will be: "Resolved, That the Cuban insurgents should accept Spain's offer of autonomy." W. Morse 1900, will open the debate for the affirmative, and P. G. Carleton '99, for the negative. The trial is open to all members of the University, excepting Freshmen, and candidates will be allowed to speak five minutes on either side of the question...
After examining the second part of the plan, consisting of the secret ballot system of election, the committee considers this portion also to offer a desirable improvement. Certain practical difficulties have, however, suggested themselves at this point. The chief of these is, that no man who is defeated as a candidate at the top of the ticket can be nominated for a place lower down, since no man can be nominated for more than one place...
...Deutsche Verein held an important meeting last evening in Roberts Hall. The character of the Verein was formally changed from a club for social purposes chiefly, to a literary club. The offer by Professor Peabody of a room in Wadsworth House was accepted, and the Verein will hereafter meet there regularly every other Tuesday evening...
...building is situated in the midst of a lodging house district, where a large number of the workingmen who have no homes, spend the night. Here also gather the unfortunates who are out of employment, and the destitute; and as but few of the lodging houses offer an attractive place for resort in stormy weather or during the evenings, the barrooms are resorted to for shelter and for companionship. It is to offer these men a pleasanter and more wholesome resort that the present project has been started; but the promotors hope that it will do more than this...