Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Over 200 persons assembled in Sever 11 on Thursday evening to hear the Union debate the question: Resolved, That the best interests of the Republican party require the renomination of J. G. Blaine for President...
...account of lack of space the full report of the Harvard Union debate will not appear in this paper until tomorrow. Over 200 persons assembled to listen to it. The vote on the merits of the question was 80-71 in Mr. Blaine's favor. On the merits of the principal disputants it stood 112-58 against his nomination for the presidency...
...Harvard men. The matter hinges now on the suitability of the Thames course for a triple race. Therefore let a meeting of the freshman class be called at once by the proper officers, in view of the general feeling of dissatisfaction which has been openly expressed, and put the question of reconsideration. If that is carried, and we sincerely trust for the honor of the college that it will be, then we suggest that a committee of three be appointed, consisting of a graduate oarsman, the captain of the 'Varsity crew, and the captain of the '89 freshman crew...
...Question: "Resolved, That the Best Interests of the Republican Party require the Nomination of James G. Blaine...
Your contributor says that different teams have represented us in different contests. They may have had a change in number 3 or 2, but they have been virtually the same, and the '88 man in question has pulled on them all. As to his argument concerning the right of the '87 men to pull in the class boat this year, it may be said that they are no longer 'Varsity men, and hence do not come under the rule respecting the latter. In the case of '88's coxswain, I do not get the drift of his very lucid argument...