Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Untermeyer, nationally prominent New York lawyer, and C. J. Dodd, district attorney of King's County, New York, will meet in a debate Tuesday evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Harvard Union. The question: "Resolved, That capital punishment should be abolished" will be upheld by Mr. Untermeyer and opposed by Mr. Dodd. Arrangements have been made with WBET, the radio station of the Boston Transcript, to broadcast the debate. This will mark the first time that an event has been broadcast from the Harvard Union...
...question will be moved by R. G. West '29, and after the motion has been opposed by Victor Quong '29, Mr. Untermeyer will be introduced. The two main speeches of 35 minutes each will be followed by an open forum for half an hour. Mr. Dodd will then speak ten minutes in rebuttal, and Mr. Untermeyer, in the last speech of the evening, will have 15 minutes for his rebuttal...
Yammering among educational, athletic and apostolic authorities as to whether the football player shall be allowed to play football, a question that enjoys a peculiar frightfulness just after the season, has just had a particularly obnoxious renascence. With the open season a month over, the familiar problem has pushed up the cover of the ashcan, straightened its necktie, shined its shoes on its trouser legs, and strode boldly into the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Carnegie Foundation has, by means of intelligence tests (and what a world of blasted hopes and teary smiles is in those...
...Britain, the party which will come into government at the next elections will be more inclined towards disarmament," Mr. Smith predicted. "But they should not trust naval experts to settle the question. The stupidest thing done at the Coolidge conference was the trust which was put in the naval experts. Quarrels on party; quarrels on guns, on cruisers,--why, what else is to be expected of naval experts anyway? The naval expert is paid to look after his navy. When he does not do that, he deserves the go-by. What does he know about limitation and reduction of armaments...
...successful. As an effective measure to destroy any possibility of Franco-American hostilities, it may be said to order on the inane. For it, covers all bellicose situations except "as such disputes related to the Monroe Doctrine, France's obligations under the covenant of the League of Nations, domestic questions, . . . or questions affecting a third party." It is hard to imagine a quarrel in which one of these clauses could not be invoked. But it there is one, it is the rankling question of debt settlement; and this treaty is obviously intended to allay the fear of the French that...