Word: question
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first regular meeting of the Philosophical Club was held at 47 Grays, on Thursday evening. The question for discussion was "What constitues a rational explanation...
...facts disclosed by a correspondent in regard to the abstraction of reserved books from the Library need little comment from us. Laying aside the question of the want of honor shown by those who allow themselves such liberties, we merely wish to remind students how injurious to their interests it is to allow the rules of the Library to go for nothing. The system of reserving books, which has proved so successful and so useful to us all, would have to be abandoned if the practice our correspondent has exposed became common; it is therefore incumbent on all students...
...colleges we have no quarrel, and the losing or winning of a race with them is a matter of almost perfect indifference to this University at least; with Yale, on the contrary, our yearly contest is of vital interest. When the R. A. A. C. was still alive, the question each year was not, "Who won?" but "Did we beat Yale...
...desk that they should be hunted up, I resigned myself to the inevitable, and sat down to read another book. Presently I saw a resident graduate who attends the course, enter the Library with a pile of books under his arm, and calmly put the two in question on the shelves. Since this happens once, it probably happens often, and I think it perfectly fair to extend to all your readers the benefit of my accidental discovery; or, rather, I should think it unfair not to do so. The disregard of conventionalities is probably not confined to resident graduates...
THANKS are also due to the Committee which arranged the preliminaries and took charge of the meeting. The mode of balloting they selected seems to have given universal satisfaction, both on account of its accuracy and perfect fairness. We question, however, whether the room selected for the meeting, though the same in which previous class elections have been held, is the most convenient in size and shape for that purpose. It necessitates, when a class is as large as the present, much crowding, confusion, and delay at the polls. The earnestness of the Committee to secure an open election...