Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to New York as long as possible. This is unfair. There was no authority in Cambridge to which the management could apply until the appointment of the Athletic Committee a week ago Friday. The managers of our team did their best to hurry matters up, and laid the question before the committee immediately. The committee decided that the game should not be played in New York, as every one knows...
...Question: "Resolved, That the United States Government ought to interfere to protect the Southern Negro in the exercise of the suffrage...
...showing especially annoying in the absence of great dispute that Harvard affords the widest and most thorough opportunities for students in America. Fair minded people, I think, do not hesitate to accept the idea that Harvard has more educational advantages than Yale to offer, although they may question whether the student is as much pressed into accepting them. Her faculty, system of instruction, library, and tone of surrounding give her an unequalled and always increasing educational value, and no person would pass her by as insufficient in an academic aspect. That her numbers do not increase as her value should...
Leaving aside the question as to whether the athletic victories of a college draws students within its doors, let us find out the prevailing sentiment of those who have Harvard's best interests near at heart. Graduates and undergraduates, after thoroughly examining why Harvard's crews and teams have been so universally beaten lately, have reached the conclusion that our teams have been handicapped from the outset. What is the ??? of competing with other colleges if we cannot do so on an equal footing? What is the use of awakening vain hopes foredoomed to disappointment? Two plans are suggested...
...recent appointment of a committee on the regulation of athletics-consisting of three members of the faculty, three graduates and three undergraduates-have now recognized the folly of their position as an inquisitorial body on athletics. This gives the body of students their due share of importance in a question which touches them more nearly than any one else. We further more believe that this committee will do its best to introducer forms greatly needed in our whole athletic system. This the committee can do by exchanging secrecy for openness, by rescinding the edict against professionalism, and by letting...