Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of Harvard and Yale foot-ball representatives was held at New Haven, Sunday evening. Messrs. Corbin, Gill, Stagg, Wallace, King, of the eleven, and Dr. Delevan represented Yale; for Harvard, Palmer and Sears were present. Harvard offered to leave the question to arbitration and abide by the decision of any judge chosen by both parties. To this Yale would not agree and in reply sent the following letter to Mr. Sears...
DEAR SIR.- My consultations with some of our graduates this morning resulted in the following final decision: Harvard must play Yale at New York on Thanksgiving day (?) forfeit their championship game scheduled for that time and place. Yale' position on that question is unapt table and will remain so. Yours truly; WILLIAM H. CORBIN...
...lectures on Moslem Civilization will be delivered this evening at 7.30 in Upper Boylston. The subject will be "The Present Outlook in the Moslem World." The lecture cannot fail to be instructive as Professor Toy is one of the men in this country most able to deal with his question. The subject itself, also, is particularly attractive, calling, as it does, for a discussion of the spirit of the nineteenth century in its effects upon the East...
Late last night Captain Sears received a telegram from Yale saying, "We can not consider the question of an exhibition game...
...library for convenience of reference upon the various topics of debate. Several shelves in the alcove of the English department in the reading room are assigned to the Union, and as soon as each subject for debate is announced the leading books and magazine articles relating to the question will be collected there. In this way everyone will be able to get information for the debate without trouble and it is hoped that the general character of the debates will be raised, and more men will be induced to speak. The society is much indebted to Mr. Kiernan for permission...