Word: question
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with the modified Class Day celebrated by the Class of '77; and strong efforts will be made this year to go back to the old way of saying farewell to college life and college friends. Whether such a return is either possible or desirable, is as yet an unsettled question; and, with a view to enable the Class of '78 to act advisedly in the matter, we invite communications from all interested in this subject...
...exists no longer in the school that gave it its title and its birth. Of the expediency of the change we can venture no fixed opinion. It has probably been found necessary to benefit the school at the expense of the game. Of its unpopularity there can be no question; and there will probably be much gnashing of teeth and lamentation over the degeneracy of the present amongst the foot-ball heroes of the past. - Rugby Meteor...
...University Crew has given us the reasons why the sign which proved so obnoxious to the press was posted over the Harvard quarters at Springfield. We do not think there is any one in college who would attach blame to the crew on account of the notice in question; but if there is such a one, the reasons given for the action and the attending results prove that the crew were perfectly justified, and that the Captain is to be congratulated on the success of his experiment. - EDS. CRIMSON...
...open question whether the restricted course necessary for the aspirant to honors, though undoubtedly exerting a stimulating and concentrating influence on the mind, may not, by the very narrowness of the curriculum and the continual contemplation of merely one subject or set of subjects, defeat the object of honors by warping, more than disciplining and cultivating, the mind. Undoubtedly the age and antecedents of the student determine the advisability of such a course. All that can safely be said is that, for a man of little general reading, little knowledge beyond the text-books of the first two years...
During the spring, however, there was a change in the nature of the attacks, inasmuch as our assailants left truth entirely out of the question, and substituted - when any substitution was attempted - newspaper wit. On one occasion an agent of the Associated Press telegraphed all over the country that a Boston free-love convention had been broken up by Harvard students. Although the statement was entirely unfounded, it was published far and wide, and it also furnished the Graphic's artist with several pictures with which to adorn the front page of that reliable sheet...