Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale is determined to be ahead of Harvard in one particular at all hazards. Early in the term a meeting will be held by all the students to vote on the question of having morning chapel at 7.30 instead of 8.10 as hitherto. The object is that all the students may have two hours free from recitations in the afternoon. The faculty have agreed to make the change, provided the students determine upon...
...graduates are sending their sons to other colleges, and that the number of students is decreasing show conclusively that something is not as it should be. All efforts to locate this something in any characteristic of Yale's government other than her tendency to old fogyism, merely beg the question. Harvard's prosperity since adopting the new ideas, and Yale's present dilemma, taken together show where the trouble...
...writing the report of the Athletic Committee which is to be delivered to the faculty at their meeting to morrow afternoon. It will cover the whole of the year 1885, and will especially discuss the matter of the employment of a coach by the crew and the foot-ball question. It is expected that the faculty will then decide whether inter-collegiate foot-ball will be allowed next fall...
Tuesday evening, December 29, Senator Dawes of this state addressed an audience of eight hundred, or thereabouts, in Sanders, on "The Indian Question." It was advertised that he would lecture, but the "lecture" proved a powerful oration in behalf of the poor Indian. This address was given under the auspices of the Cambridge branch of the Indian Right Association, Rev, Samuel Longfellow, president...
...thumb. On one occasion when he had been lecturing on the relations of good and evil of the world, he was asked by some inquisitive divinity student to explain the origin of evil. Replied the president, with a strong Doric accent: - "Well, ye have asked me a vera deeficult question. All the feelosophers of antiquity have tried their hand at it. Sookrates tried it and failed; Plato did no better. Descarites, Spinoza and Leibnitz were obliged to confess it was too much for them. Kant tried it and made a mess of it, and to tell you the truth, gentlemen...