Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wonderfully strange and sad. At the beginning of the century Germany stood at the head of the movement for truth and light; at the end, the Catholic church was there, in the very home of Protestantism, slowly and surely gaining ground. The chief reason for this was that the question of reforming the church was becoming political. When Luther left the Diet of Worms the heart of the people went with him. Princes, cities, and peasantry all took up the new teaching. But there was no united national feeling, and the struggles of first one class and then another...
...Harvard Union was held in Sever 11 last evening. After the reading and accepting of the minutes of the previous meeting the election of new members was in order, and A. B. Webber, '92, and D. T. Dickinson, L. S. were elected to membership. Of the three questions proposed for the next debate the following was selected: Resolved that a republican form of government is the best for Brazil. Mr. Dodge as a member of the executive committee then brought forward the following amendment to the constitution: The debate from the floor shall close at 10 o'clock unless...
...argument by stating the platform adopted by the republicans at Chicago, many points of which he said President Harrison had disregarded. In regard to civil service he said that many removals from office had been made without cause. Mr. Macy closed his argument with an explanation of the Tanner question...
...Thayer, L. S., in opening the debate for the negative, said that the condition of affairs could be summed up in the one expression, "put yourself in his place." He said he would agree with his opponents that the republican party was lazy but the question to be proved was whether or not President Harrison had violated his pledges. The president has been surrounded by incompetent heads of departments who wish to turn out men; in addition he is oppressed by poor service. The platform of the republican party he said, favors the extension of the civil service reform...
...Hudson, '90, closed the negative side of the question, affirming the arguments of his colleague...