Word: question
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...voluntary monologue upon the evils of Catholicism. "Beginning," he said, "with Asia, and spreading through England, Italy, and its islands, the bigotry of the Catholic church came over to - " His geography failing him, I suggested Samoa. Unhappy venture! He began with Samoa, and opened a controversy upon the question of our country's buying it. As he turned his head, however, at the sound of the Introit, I slipped out. As I followed in the steps of my friends, "Alas! Miss Flynn," said I, "the bigotry of Catholicism has made too many like you. If your only religion...
American college corporations think they have done their duty when they have helped a "meritorious, but indigent student" to get his degree. In addition, it remains an open question whether American scholarship will be advanced or not by throwing open to rich and poor whatever rewards a college has to offer...
...correspondent in the last Advocate takes exception to the articles in question because, as he says, the method used of exhorting us to remedy the matter seems to him unwise. We heartily agree with him that it would be very unwise to try to improve musical matters at Harvard by showing that it was "the thing" to sing at Yale or Amherst. Moreover, if he had taken the trouble to read carefully the article in the Crimson before attempting to criticise it, he would have found that no such method of exhortation was there attempted...
...Thursday the elective in English 5 tried an experiment in the shape of a debate. The subject chosen (the question whether women who pay taxes on property should be allowed to vote for city, town, and municipal officers) was practical in its nature, and considerable interest was taken in the debate. The question, too, had been well studied by the debaters. The experiment is the result of a desire, on the part of those who regulate the instruction given in college, to develop among the students an ability "to think on their legs," and in this way to become fitted...
Columbia-Oxford. Bell's Life says of this race: "If the only question on which depends the race between these Universities is that of championship, we think neither this nor any other contest can take place until American rowing assumes a far different aspect from that which now exists. As matters stand, no college crew can lay claim to the championship...