Word: question
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Juniors supported the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, That the president of the French Republic should be elected by popular vote," speaking in the following order both in their main and rebuttal speeches: J. W. Plaisted, A. N. Holcombe, J. A. Harley. The Sophomore team, composed of W. H. Keeling, S. F. Peavey and M. C. Leckner, spoke in the order named, but in rebuttal Keeling spoke first, Leckner second, and Peavey third. Both teams made use of too many quotations instead of developing their statements from their own arguments. In the rebuttal speeches the Sophomores met their opponents' arguments...
...question, which was the subject of the Carnot Medal debate, held between Leland Stanford and the University of California in 1902, is: "Resolved, That the president of the French Republic should be elected by popular vote...
...that they are drifting towards disciplinary effort? It is far better that a man should take studies which really to train him than studies which are supposed to train him. The value of a study to any man can be measured only by its effects upon the man in question...
...pass now to our second proposition, that the free elective system is unrivalled in the promotion of broad views. As far as it is a question of securing to the student a wide and same view of the world in which he lives, the number of studies which have an equal claim upon his attention are as numerous as the many and diverse activities of our complex modern life. In view of the fairly comparable values of the great number of studies in promoting breadth of view, it is ridiculous to fasten upon any single study or department of study...
...closing the main argument of the affirmative, N. M. Thomas said that still another standpoint from which to argue the question is that of logic,--the almost inevitable consequence of existing conditions. The old education was the result of old conditions, and the colleges have had to adapt themselves to new conditions almost against their will. Mention has already been made of the inevitable trend of education towards election. The field of valuable knowledge is so broad that no man can traverse the whole ground. Choice must be made. Who shall make it? We are compelled to answer...