Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...also as those who would see all businesses and occupations elevated and ennobled by intellectual training, must all agree. That education, if properly used, and properly and modestly esteemed, will give both greater power and greater pleasure to business men, as well as to the literati, is undeniable. The question, however, takes at first sight a slightly different phase, when we consider whether or not the education at professional schools should be preceded by the regular collegiate training. Is it better for students to go right from the high school or the academy to the professional school? or do students...
...condition of many naturally weak industries is very precarious on account of the possible changes in the rate of duty. The condition of the laborers in these industries is very bad, and from them have arisen the complaints which have brought into such prominence of late years, the "Labor Question." Foreign immigrants with their pernicious ideas of state help and socialism have helped to widen the breach between laborers and capitalists, and as long as these weak protected industries exist, we can have nothing to expect but dissatisfaction and even threats of violence on the part of the laborers...
...which the conference committee, if it were established, might be useful. It might inquire of the faculty, for instance, the reason why the bulletin boards of the nine were prohibited from the yard; or it might seek to learn the faculty's state of mind on the professional question, and whether any good whatsoever has been accomplished by forbidding the nine to play with professional teams, and by prohibiting professional coaches...
...price of board is so to speak a function of two variables; the quality of board and the number of boarders. This latter determines the price much more effectually than the former, but it is itself regulated by the former. The great question, which the present steward has solved so successfully, is how to satisfy the great number of men who join the association every September, so that they will remain throughout the year. In order to accomplish this end a high standard of board must be firmly maintained. In doing this, however, care must be taken not to make...
Clippings from the required English work are often amusing in their nature, but seldom equal to the following which is taken from a speech by one of our United States senators: "When this committee is formed I hope that the committee will go at this question of the Senate employees with reference to a desire only to discharte honestly the obligation which the Senate as a body owes to the country in regard to that control which it asserts concerning the expenditures of public money with reference to matters which are pertinent, either to the convenience of Senators...