Word: question
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final debate of the interclass series in Sever 11 on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. "Resolved, that the United States should establish a temporary protectorate in Mexico until order and stable government are assured" has been the subject of the two preliminary debates and will again be the question. The Juniors will uphold the affirmative as in their previous debate with the Freshmen, and the Sophomore team will also present the side of the question on which they debated before...
...question of how to strengthen the Union has been discussed so many times without a constructive settlement that a solution is generally considered an impossibility. The undergraduates, the Governing Board, and the Trustees all firmly believe that the Union has an important place in the life of the University, but thus far no united action has been instigated to make the Union fill this place. The present financial and social position of the Union is so critical that unless immediate steps are taken to aid the managers, this valuable institution will be forced to close its doors in the near...
...Governing Board of the Union at a meeting yesterday afternoon decided to demand action on the question of compulsory membership in the Union, which was voted upon favorably by the entire University last spring. In the following letter to the chairman of the Administrative Board of the University and the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Union, a speedy change in the organization of the Union is requested in accordance with the decision of the University in May. The vote at that time was 926 for and 308 against compulsory membership. The complete text of the letter follows...
...proved that the Harvard Union cannot exist as a social club in its present weak status, both financially and economically; since the undergraduate officers of the Union were given to understand by the College authorities in May, 1916, that in the event of an affirmative majority on the membership question by the undergraduate body, that the annual fee at a reduced rate would be placed on each undergraduate's term bill; and since the vote showed a three-to-one majority in favor of the above proposition; we, the undersigned Governing Board of the Harvard Union, do hereby earnestly request...
...clock. Ever since the beginning of the present war President Eliot has been studying and writing about its different phases. He has spent an especially large amount of time studying the conditions existing after wars, and has drawn some conclusions as to the probable conditions after this conflict. The question will be thrown open to a general discussion after his address. Some important business of the club will be transacted, and then the two representatives who will attend the annual convention of Cosmopolitan Clubs at New Haven from December 27 to 29 will be elected...