Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...inauspicious weather last evening,a large audience completely filled Sever 11 to listen to the first debate between the Harvard Union and the Wendell Phillips Club. The question, as has been announced, was "Resolved, That the present method of electing United States senators is preferable to election by popular vote...
...arguments that the interest of the audience remained undiminished to the end. The speaking was characterized by perhaps too little following out of a consecutive line of argument by speakers on the same side and by useless citation of individual instances and comparisons, together with a tendency towards the popular stump speech on the part of several of the debaters; but upon the whole the men spoke well and convincingly and the showing made does credit to all the participants...
...second speaker for the Union was J. F. Hall L. S. He claimed that the present system elected better men than would be possible by popular election, which is largely controlled by city bosses...
Question: "Resolved, That the present method of electing United States senators is preferable to election by popular vote...
...question of the evening will be, "Resolved, That the present method of electing United States senators is preferable to election by popular vote." The speakers will be as follows...