Word: question
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conversation at Memorial Hall is in a degenerate state. It is confined entirely to petty, heckling trivialities. No effort is made to discuss a subject intelligently or arrive at a logical conclusion on any question of the day. One thousand men are each wasting three hours a day in intellectual dejection which might profitably be spent in cultivating intelligent thought...
Professor Sabine, the chairman of the Building Committee used the room in question last year for experiments in acoustics. It is unusually large and will be given even more light by the cutting of two new windows in the south wall. Except during the morning when classes will be held there, the Glee Club will have the room for its own purposes...
...enough to please those who look forward to a universal federation of the world, but probably quite as far as is practicable. It proposes that the members shall agree not to go to war with one another before submitting the matter in dispute -- whether strictly a question of international law or not--to an impartial body selected to examine it; and that all the members shall pledge themselves to declare war on any of their number that begins hostilities against another without submitting the question in that...
...many good men ask: Why resort to military force? Why not try milder measures; a conference of the members of the league, or commercial non-intercourse? To pledge nations to declare war is a dreadful thing. Apply the same question to the maintenance of order within a city. Why have a policeman, and why should he be armed? If he sees a burglar breaking into a house, or a highwayman attacking a wayfarer, why should he not call a meeting of the city council for conference Why instead of having a police force, should not the citizens agree to boycott...
Among the more recent books of greater interest are "Chaucer and His Poetry," by Professor G. L. Kittredge '82; "Some Aspects of the Tariff Question," by Professor F. W. Taussing '79; "The Trust Problem," by E. Dana Durand, recently Director of the United States Census; "Essays in Social Justice," by Professor T. N. Carver; and "The Governemnts of France, Germany, and England," by President Lowell...