Word: question
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...eccentric movements of the world to-day. Such instruction would be too wide and comprehensive to be confined within the limits of an elective course. If given this year, it should have enabled us to understand, for instance, the financial crisis through which we have been passing, the question of international treaties, brought up by the extradition discussion, the relations of foreign powers during a war, the probable effect of the Eastern war on American industries, and, in a word, the whole matter of this Turko-Russian war. Most of this can be learned in some of the elective courses...
...regard to the recent action of the Directors of Memorial Hall, we do not stand in the belligerent attitude the usually cautious and circumspect Advocate has, in its last issue, seen fit to assume. Waiving the question of constitutionality, the compromise which the Board has effected seems, on the whole, eminently satisfactory both to the early and to the late risers. The men who, during this most busy time of the year, wish to have breakfast after half past eight, are few compared with those who have so far appeared at the Hall before Chapel exercises. To be sure...
...eight if he wish any breakfast at all. This seems to us to be a proceeding which, though in this case productive of good, is legally unjustifiable. We understand that they have power, not to make laws, but only to carry out the wishes of the Association; and a question so important as this ought to have been decided by ballot. The assertion that the majority were not competent to vote, as some allege, is rank nonsense: every man's opinion is sound when the stomach is concerned. We say, then, that the compromise in itself is a satisfactory...
...question as to the desirability of earlier prayers is one of so much interest to all of us that I venture to bring it up again...
...change made. I say supposed desire, since I venture to assert that this decision does not represent the real desire of a majority of students. I cannot establish this assertion by positive data, but my purpose in writing this is to bring out a vote on this two-sided question. I can readily understand that there are men - not "bummers" or "society men," but good students - whose habits of study lead them to carry it far into the night, and who therefore consider the extra morning hour very valuable for sleep. But I think these men are exceptional, and that...