Word: question
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...recent debate in English 5 on "The Advisability of Woman's Suffrage," the question was decided in the negative. Another debate on the Chinese Labor question has recently taken place, and a negative decision was reached...
...spirit has moved Dr. Samuel Osgood to write a letter on the question to the New York Times, and Dr. Osgood's letter has moved Mr. Sargent, the president of the Club, to answer it in the same paper. The former gentleman defends the present seal, on the ground that...
...especially by the men of '80 and '81. There was much work to be done before autumn, when two or more games would be played in Canada, and four or five here in Cambridge; Yale especially was a dangerous rival. The team would probably consist of fifteen men; the question would be decided at the May meeting of the Captains from Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard. Probably no association would be formed. As to trophies, the balls used at the match-games were not satisfactory for exhibition; and he therefore proposed a prize-flag for every game. After some discussion...
...less foot-ball and cricket news, than we find in most of the English school-papers. There is a very spirited prize poem on the Maid of Orleans; but whether it sounds more like the "Lays of Ancient Rome," or the "Lays of the Scottish Cavalier," is an open question...
After this several speeches were made on both sides of the question, but generally in favor of rowing the race...