Word: question
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...important aspect of the class election question seems thus far to have gone unnoticed. It has been proposed to forbid re-elections until the Senior year, in order that the final officers may be chosen on the basis of previously proved executive ability. To this it has been objected that the rule will often result in forcing the retirement, for a year or two, of the most capable officers. This point is good, but it goes only half way. Executive ability has in both cases been treated as a fixed quality in the candidates under consideration. In reality the power...
Whether or not these rules are suitable, it is desirable that some action on the question should be taken by the present Freshman class. If their choice of officers at the outset is fortunate, rules like those above will not affect them; otherwise they will be of value to them as well as to future classes...
...course of his address Mr. Frothingham gave a sketch of the Charles River Dam question from the time of its first public discussion up to the present. The matter was originally taken up in 1814, but nothing was done in regard to it until 1869, when the Speaker of the House of Representatives appointed a commission to inquire into the advisability of constructing a dam across the Charles River. In spite of strong opposition the commission reported favorably on the subject, but the plan was quickly abandoned. In 1891 Mayor Matthews of Boston was instrumental in the appointment...
These objections were all refuted by the evidence of the experts employed by the committee. The sanitary question was the hardest accurately to determine, but from a long series of experiments it was conclusively proved that the proposed dam would materially better the existing conditions...
...accordance with a recent vote of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the President has appointed a divisional committee of nineteen members of the Faculty to consider the advisability of a general rearrangement of the tabular view. The committee will discuss the whole question of the schedule of courses. It is made up as follows: Professor S. M. Macvane, chairman, Professors H. B. Hill, F. G. Peabody, H. S. White, H. L. Warren, D. G. Lyon, W. E. Byerly, J. E. Wolff, I. N. Hollis, M. H. Morgan, C. P. Parker, L. J. Johnson, W. C. Sabine, B. S. Hurlbut...