Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Wednesday night a hearing was had before the board of aldermen of Cambridge on the Meigs elevated railroad question. The petition of Mr. Meigs for a location in Cambridge was opposed by the Cambridge Railroad Company, but a petition signed by 4000 citizens of Cambridge was presented in favor of the proposed road. No definite action was taken by the aldermen...
...report of the Union debate, which is published on the first page, contains a summary of all the arguments on the question of the university club...
...call the attention of our readers to the notice of a mass meeting which is to be held this evening to settle the base-ball question as far as Harvard is concerned. The matter now lies entirely with the college, and it is for it to consider carefully and well the questions at issue...
...Wednesday afternoon a large mass meeting was held at New Haven to take action upon the question of joining a new base-ball league in preference to the old. An almost unanimous sentiment was expressed against forming a triangular league with Princeton and Harvard; but a new league, leaving out Dartmouth, Brown and Amherst, seemed to find many adherents. After an animated discussion, it was voted to allow the base-ball management to join any league it thought best, except the one with Princeton and Harvard. It seems most likely that the managers will favor Williams against Columbia...
Last evening a fair-sized audience assembled in Saunders Theatre to hear the lecture of the Rev. Joseph Cook on "Temperance." The lecturer was introduced by Mr. Webster, president of the Harvard Total Abstinence League. Mr. Cook began by comparing the prohibition question to the old slavery issue, and said he hoped that his hearers would live to seethe liquor traffic declared an outlaw thoughout the civilized world. The temperance movement takes root easily in the Anglo-Saxon nature. For the love of moral purity inherent in it awakens a great sensibility to moral questions, and we should...