Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Question: "Resolved, That the internal taxes on tobacco he abolished...
...Christmas recess was brought up last year, the faculty replied that the power lay not in their hands, but in those of the overseers. Our correspondent has done well in agitating the matter thus early; for there will be plenty of time for the faculty to bring the question before the Board of Over seers if it meets with their approval. It would seem to be a very simple thing to begin the vacation on the Saturday before Easter and have college reopen on the following Monday week-thus having the double advantage of giving us Easter at home...
...Question: "Resolved, That the internal taxes on tobacco be abolished...
...CLUB LECTURES.A series of lectures on economic subjects will be given under the auspices of the Harvard Finance Club in Sever Hall 11 on successive Mondays, beginning February 20. The first lecture will be by Professor E. Benjamin Andrews, of Brown University, on "A possible Solution of the Silver Question." Other lectures will be duly announced. The public will be admitted...
...banquet productive of important results socially, but various measures for furthering the interests of the academy were discussed at length. Steps were taken toward the building of a chemical laboratory, and resolutions were made informally to increase the number of scholarships and to improve the library. The old question of raising the instructors' salaries was broached, but it was deemed impracticable to arrive at any favorable decision until the endowment could be increased. The Hon. E. B. Merrill presided, and toasts were responded to by Prof. Dunbar, of Harvard University, and Profs. Wentworth and Kittredge, instructors at the academy...