Word: question
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...well that it seemed unfair to let all their work go for nothing, and they can obtain the certificate by passing, next year, those examinations in which they failed. Two or three of the ladies who succeeded will probably try for further honors next year. There is a question whether the names of those who succeeded in the examinations shall be printed in the Catalogue. Why should they...
With pleasure we drop this whole unprofitable question, having said only what we considered necessary in support of the position taken by Harvard. The unpleasant things we have considered it our duty to say are not directed against Yale, but against the unadvised conduct of its representative, in rebuking whom we are confident a large party of Yale men would join us, although the Courant sees fit to excuse him by the use of most dangerous casuistry...
...reply to the question as to which was the largest English settlement in this country, a Fresh, replied, "The Alabama." - University Press...
...Orient says, "There must be something wrong with a college when all its students say, upon graduating, 'I wish I had gone elsewhere.'" We are inclined to think that the verdict of insubordination and unwarranted rebellion so generally given by the press is not the only side of the question...
...open the question of compulsory attendance at church, which undergraduates have some very decided opinions upon, we would ask here to-day, when so many of our clerical friends favor us with their presence, that these same friends consider whether or not we have grounds for this criticism upon their weekly sermons. Hard enough it is for clergymen in general to lift themselves out of the sermonizing ruts that their fathers and grandfathers wore deep for them; yet that some do so we all know; and when once we find the large - hearted, great - souled preacher, who seems to have...