Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...senior class at Columbia are discussing the question of leaving a memorial to the college for the building of a gymnasium...
...upholders, while the other has sixteen. Who is Mr. Davenport Adams, forsooth, that he should be taken as an authority over the second fohos, Ben Johnson, and a host of other commentators? So Mr. Adams would have us spell 'Shakespeare' in any way we choose? It is a question if Mr. Adams would care to have his name spelled in more than one way. There is a gentleman in Philadelphia who has amused himself by making out two thousand ways of spelling Shakespeare's name. Would it not be advisable for the "Shakespeare" Club to buy this little book select...
...rain and the sleet had little effect upon the attendance at the Union last night. President Merriam called the meeting to order. The question for debate was, Resolved, That Capital Punishment should be Abolished. The ballot on the merits of the question resulted in, affirmative, 21; negative, 31. The principal disputants were F. H. Darling, L. S., and H. E. Fraser, '86, affirmative; and L. McK. Garrison, '88, and S. B. Rogers, L. S., negative. The negative won the victory on skill of argument by a vote...
...affirmative; Bailey, '88, Williams, L. S., Harvey, '88, Campbell, '86, Solloway, L. S., Winkler, '89, Hesseltine, '88, Chase, '89, Lee, L. S., Kendall, '86, Rich, '87, McAfee, Sp., and Perry, '89, negative. The vote on the merits of the debate as a whole stood, affirmative, 10; negative, 17. The question for the next debate at the meeting is, Resolved, That the rightful successor of President Grant was Samuel J. Tilden...
Professor Palmer's "New Education" should call forth comments from representatives of the old school. We understand that it will receive comment in the columns of the coming Andover Review. We wait with interest the sentiments of the Princetonian, our old-time disputant on this question...