Word: question
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more unfortunate that Harvard should be so suddenly called upon to express officially its opinion on so important a matter as universal military service. Although the question has been in the air for several months, it has been brought home to very few students. Without a discussion in the columns of the CRIMSON, as in the present case, the vote represents little more than the "snap judgment" of the University. Under the circumstances, if the CRIMSON wished to comply with the Army League's request for an official canvass of Harvard sentiment, to be presented before the Senate Committee, there...
...universal training surprisingly large. It is doubtful if even the closest follower of opinion in the University could have forecast the result. Three quarters of all the men voting expressed their wish for a universal scheme of preparedness. Harvard's stand has been strongly taken. On perhaps no other question of so controversial a nature could an overwhelming vote be obtained...
There can be no question but that Harvard men will fulfill in practice what they have approved in theory. With young men willing to undergo sacrifice for their country, here and in other universities, and among non-University men, the future of our nation cannot be but full of promise...
...many of our own hundred million and odd people prefer the "touch-and-go" method in reading to the permanent joys of possession? The question is not idle in a land vastly richer in popular libraries than any of the countries of Europe, Great Britain included. The set-off is that we have a large public nurtured in the tradition of buying; the foreigner who settles in our reading atmosphere finds to his surprise that we purchase as well as borrow books to an extent unknown abroad. The "shelf" movement had its greatest success here; the new cheap editions were...
Lawrence Perry, Sporting editor of the New York Evening Post, has taken up the question of professional football which is causing much notice at present. He believes that such an introduction of professionalism into the sport which causes most attention of any intercollegiate activity would materially detract from the college games. His article is as follows...