Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last one was chosen. The debate on the question Resolved, That it is a benefit to the United States to receive immigrants at the present rate was opened by Mr. Higgins, L. S., for the affirmative. His address had three points. That under the present rate of immigration no harm could come to our generation from the land being unable to support the people. That the country was not developed enough now so that all classes of industry could lead into one another where they were situated. That as it took courage and energy for immigrants to come they must...
...Question: Resolved, That the United States ought to take steps toward the complete ownership and management or railways...
...Question: Resolved, That it is a benefit to the United States to receive in migrants at the present rate...
...address was concerning "What the students can do for the college." The first idea of the average student on being asked this question, would be, that he might best serve his college by excelling in athletics, but while it is a good thing to excel in body, in strength and in health, only a few can possibly serve the college in this way. There are other ways for you to serve the college. Harvard represents a peculiar policy of government; a policy which gives freedom to its students and which can only be successful as its results are successful. Students...
...retracted. And so it goes on from day to day. The present trouble we are told is due to a lawsuit and while this is pending scores of students are spending their money and inconveniencing themselves-waiting apparently endressly. It is not our purpose to take sides on the question of the law suit. In the first place we have no knowledge of the point in question beyond the bare fact that the university complains that the architect has not finished the building at the specified time, and the architect that the university delayed in awarding the contracts...