Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard Union last evening a very interesting discussion took place upon the subject of the Labor Movement in American Politics. Messrs. Burdett and McAfee argued for the affirmative, while Messrs. Hansen and Goodale of the Law School upheld the negative side of the question. In the course of the debate, several interesting economic facts were brought forward. Thus one of the speakers alluded to the fact that 85 per cent. of the total product of the German Empire is distributed among persons having an income of less that $500 a year. Reliable statistics prove that the receipts of the laboring...
...Harvard Union meets this even in Sever 11 at 7.30 o'clock. The question for debate will be: "Resolved, That the Labor movement in American Politics should be supported." The regular disputants are: aff. C. H. Burdett, '88; French McAfee, sp.; neg., O. R. Hassen, L.S., J. McG. Goodale...
...nothing after all. But an hour examination given within two weeks of the regular examination is an injustice, requiring as it does a devotion to one course equal to that which ought to be given to two. We pray that, for the sake of equity, the hour examinations in question be withdrawn...
...debate languished, till a motion of Mr. Duncan's, amended by Mr. Hunnewell, that a committee of five should confer with old oarsmen and report at a future meeting, was voted down. An informal vote was taken on the question of admitting Yale; the secretary appointed Messrs. Tyson, Stout, Woods and Garrison, tellers: yeas, 85; nays. 45. The debate now became very animated, and somewhat tiresome; Messrs. Duncan, Lund, Hutchinson, Lund, Fairbanks, and Tilton sustaining the affirmative side of the argument, and Messrs. Hunnewell, Crowninshield and Post, the negative...
Yale is to day agitating the question whether her chapel pulpit shall be occupied permanently by one man, or whether she shall adopt the system in vogue at Harvard, - of having eminent ministers from the neighboring cities, preach each Sunday. This discussion turns our attention to an advantage we are enabled to enjoy, which, however, too few men seem to appreciate. When we consider the great pains Prof. Peabody takes in this matter of supplying the chapel pulpit Sunday evenings, it seems to us that the congregation should be made up more largely of students and less of Cambridge people...