Word: question
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Seminary. This important association technically called the "Seminary of American History and Economics," meets every Friday evening for two hours. The exercises consist of reviews of current historical and economic literature and the presentation and discussion of papers. During the fall months two live talks on current questions were given. The first was by Edward P. Allinson, a young lawyer in Philadelphia, interested in the reform movement in city politics there. Mr. Allinson gave a running epitome of his historical study of "City Government in Philadelphia." The second was by Senator Dawes, who at a public meeting of the seminary...
...Higginson began by saying that he wanted to speak for a few moments on the question of temperance on its moderate side and in a rational manner. Men of to-day, the writers and thinkers who had to deal with this question and also the men whom those agitating the cause of temperance wanted to reach, were rational beings who could see the errors of overstatement; and any influence over them would be lessened thereby. There was sanity in moderation in the use of intoxicants as much as in the total abstinence from them. He did not want it understood...
...vote on the merits of the question stood: aff., 8; neg., 15; on the skill of the principal disputants: aff., 12; neg., 29; on the debate as a whole...
...question returns to us, then, What ought a Yale student of to-day to be? I answer, just what the Yale men of the past have been. He should be a man whose prime quality only and foundation of character is manliness, the sense of duty so all controlling that he is reacy for duty's call whenever and wherever it comes to him. That manly sense of obligation to God and men which puts work before pleasure and inspires the soul to meet with a spirit of a conqueror what is distasteful...
...from preconceived notions. The evidence is put before him clearly and he is left to make his own estimate, which seems, necessarily, that the Knights were hardly justified in causing the distress they did by the stoppage of traffic on the Southwestern system. These two articles on the labor question are complementary to each other and would produce in almost anyone, ideas that are sound and unprejudiced...