Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...acknowledged fact that communications have been sent from Yale to Cambridge, (Eng.,) with a view to the settlement of the question of a meeting between the crews of the respective colleges. Captain Woodruff of the Yale crew admits that letters have passed between representatives of the colleges, but denies that such correspondence is official. He further expresses himself as follows in regard to the probability of a successful termination of negotiations...
...Cambridge relative to arranging a race if it is possible to do so. One or two things, however, may prove rather considerable obstacles. In the first place, any idea of a race between Yale and Cambridge in April, as has been suggested by the newspapers, is out of the question. Yale has only a week's vacation in April, and it would not be possible for the men to go across the water then. They would lose too much time from their work. No American college crew ought to go abroad for a race without calculating for at the very...
...Warner, L. S. spoke first on the negative. Nobody supports the spoils syste; it is felt to be bad, but how shall the difficulty be met? The question under consideration is as pleasing to the ordinary young man as the smile of his best girl. How well "efficient officials" sounds. A large number of democrats are efficient, if not, the fear of removal will make them so. To be sure, there are the republicans who held the offices four years ago. They are just as experienced, but to put them in the places of democrats would be rotation, and that...
Vote on the merits of the question-affirmative 37, negative...
...question for next time is "Resolved, That the elective franchise should be extended to women...