Word: question
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Hockey League will be held at the St. Nicholas Rink, New York City, this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The schedule of league games will be arranged, and the question of continuing to hold these games at the St. Nicholas Rink will be discussed. The matter of umpires will also be settled in addition to the regular business of the league...
...Cobden-Sanderson next traced the changes in the materials out of which books have been made, from the original slabs of baked clay, to the papyrus, parchment, and paper states. Then came an attempt to solve the question of the origin of the alphabet, through the progressive modification of hieroglyphics, passing through the hieratie, Phoenician and Greek symbols, and culminating in the invention of lower-case letters by the monkish scribes of the Middle Ages...
...Germanization and general depravity brought against Harvard College by one of its more recent graduates. Harvard cannot thrive without criticism, but this particular attack is unfortunate in more ways than one. The editor finds Oxfordization as perilous a development both for the College and for the critic in question-and disapproves any scheme which would tend to destroy either college spirit or class spirit. This is true: despite the amazing changes wrought by the reform of the curriculum, Harvard College is embedded in class spirit as in a rock...
...really are the ones to work a change for the better. These continued defeats are doing the College no good, if not positive harm, through public opinion which so often jumps at conclusions; and what they might be I leave to be considered. I should like to see the question of football threshed out in these columns and some action taken, no matter how radical. GRADUATE
...Advocate." This issue has the merit of variety; it ranges from the flippant to the serious. The thoughtful editorial, prefaced by a letter from Professor Francke, discusses the evils of specialization, and suggests a remedy. The editor is to be praised for eliminating from the argument the irrelevant question of the alleged "Germanization" of Harvard. What care we whether we are imitating the Germans? For us an academic practice is good, not because it is German, but because it suits American conditions and carries out American ideals...