Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debate in the Union. Thirty-five undergraduates were present at the close of the discussion to vote in favor of the proposal, action upon which has been temporarily postponed by the Corporation. The later body had hoped to obtain a fairly definite idea of undergraduate opinion on the question. The subject of the debate seemed likely to attract a large interest; two years ago, the question of football overemphasis drew a thousand students to the Union, a majority of whom agreed that the undue importance on the sport should be checked. Speakers with reputations in the world of athletics were...
...dropkicking, proved more than anything else that the Stadium proposal had not excited the Harvard graduates of the future. It is a matter that has deeply agitated some loyal alumni, and more and more appears to be of exclusive interest to the graduates. The Corporation can now face the question squarely, as Mr. Withington put it last night: Is football primarily a game for the undergraduates to play, or a spectacle for loyal, returning alumni to enjoy? Underlying all the arguments was that question, the old problem of the proper relation of football to the life of the University. With...
...Conant '79 and D. S. Gibbs '27 complete the list of speakers for the debate at the Union tomorrow evening on the question: "Resolved, That this house favors the enlargement of the Stadium to a seating capacity of 80,000 people...
...Gibbs '27, former CRIMSON editorial chairman and now a member of the staff of the New York World, will take the affirmative side of the question Lothrop Withington '11 and M. A. Check '26 will be his colleagues. The former is president of the Harvard Club of Boston, and in his undergraduate days was a prominent football and crew man Cheek, who likewise favors enlargement of the Stadium, was captain of the 1928 football team...
...Debating Union has decided to make the debate parliamentary rather than formal, in order to obtain a representative poll of the undergraduate feeling in regard to the question. Five minute speeches will be allowed to any undergraduate or alumnus who wishes to express his views on the subject...