Word: question
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...given, shows a wide variation from Professor Palmer's figures. The author of "College Expenses" states that of the two lowest grades together-men spending less than $810-there are about thirty men from each class; whereas Prof. Palmer, in answer to the question "What is a competent allowance for a man coming to Harvard?" says: "If he will live closely, carefully, yet with full regard to all that is required, he may do so, with nearly half his class, on not more than $800." Again the author apologizes for making a grade as low as $600, saying that only...
...operative Society. We think that there is good ground for such complaint. There has been a great deal of dissatisfaction, this year, among patrons of the Co-operative Society on account of the lack of attention shown by the management. Whether it is deliberate or not is a question which does not concern us. The fault should be remedied...
...Finance Club has been fortunate in securing Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge to lecture before the college on the question of Protection, next Monday evening. The prominence Mr. Lodge has attained in questions of finance and economics makes it unnecessary for us to assert his ability to treat the question he has chosen for the subject of his lecture. The question of Protection is one that is always interesting; but it is peculiarly so at present, when the merits of the doctrines of Free Trade and Protection are to come forward so strongly in the Tariff issue now before the country...
...were collected in favor of the request. On Tuesday last, at an informal meeting, Mr. Green presented the request to the faculty and made an able speech in its favor. The matter was discussed in all its aspects, the faculty evincing a desire to weigh the merits of the question thoroughly before rendering a decision. The session lasted two and a half hours. A decision will probably be rendered next Tuesday, April 3, at the regular meeting of the faculty...
...sealed envelopes containing the names of the writers were not opened till after the formal report of the judges. None of the judges knew that the recalled essay had been written by a member of the Annex till some time after their report had been handed in. The question, whether, if the three judges had actually read the Annex essay, they would have declared it worthy of a prize, has been raised, but cannot be answered. In the statements in the editorial of last Monday in regard to the opening of the envelope, we erred through following false information...