Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Union held a debate in Boylston Hall last evening. Question: "Resolved, that high license is preferable to prohibition as a method of dealing with intemperance." Regular disputants: affirmative, P. Robinson, L. S., W. Magee, '89; negative, E. Platt, '88, A. Reisner, '89. The vote on the merits of the question was, affirmative 17: negative, 6. On the merits of the argument of the principal disputants, affirmative 20; negative 11. The debate was the most spirited known in the Union for a long time, and many spoke from the floor...
Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Question: "Resolved, that high license is preferable to prohibition as a method of dealing with Intemperance...
...important result of the recent Harvard anniversary celebration is the renewal of the question in regard to the elective system as now in vogue at this University. Interest in this subject has been revived by the remarks of James Russell Lowell, on the classics in his oration, and in view of the fact that Mr. Lowell is one of Harvard's most distinguished graduates, his remarks have a peculiar significance. It is interesting for us here at Yale, to watch the progress of the discussion, inasmuch as Yale has always been on the conservative side in this question...
...success, both in the increased number of students and the increased wealth and influence of the college. He knew all this as well as any man in America; and of all men in America he was most opposed to, and most afraid of it. It was out of the question, therefore, that he could come to Cambridge without hearing much in praise of what we prize as liberal, and what he condemn's as heretical; if he expected to do this he was sanguine - very sanguine...
...correspondent in a recent communication to the CRIMSON has proposed that there shall be a one mile race with Yale on the day following the Columbia race. This, however, would be out of the question, even if Yale should accept such terms, which is doubtful, - for our freshmen could not possibly row this second race as well as ordinary circumstances would warrant...