Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Question: "Resolved, that President Cleveland in refusing the Senators' demand for documents relating to Public Appointments has grossly transcended his authority...
...that Mr. Lodge could give us no better advice than that the doctrine of expediency should be our rule of life." There was nothing in the lecture which admits of such a construction. Mr. Lodge said, "Work for the highest and best measures, but when there is no moral question involved do not by insisting on the unattainable lose everything...
...honest, sensible man doubts that Mr. Lodge followed this principle when he supported Mr. Blaine in the recent Presidential campaign, although Mr. Blaine was not his personal choice in the convention. Whether there was or was not "a moral question involved," has nothing to do with Mr. Lodge's honesty. We have had quite enough of what Mr. Lodge calls the "merely negative and critical...
...tariff question Harvard has been always accused of a partiality toward free trade, and business men have often felt that in sending their sons hither they were running great risk in that vile free trade notions would grow up in their boys. As we all know, our political economy professors are free traders, but the impartial way in which course one has taken up the subject of the tariff, is a matter of congratulation to all political economy students. The skeptical and impartial manner in which work is generally pursued here is one of the greatest advantages of this college...
...whole, the students in Political Economy one are to be congratulated that this living question is to be discussed in an impartial...