Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thanks chiefly to the dramatic nature of the trial and execution not long ago of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, the question of capital punishment has come up again. Much opinion has been aired, editorially and otherwise, and conclusions have been varied. From lively descriptions of ghostly apparitions in the prison, doctored up with as much sensationalism as possible, to thoughtful attempts to reach an ultimate judgment upon the whole problem by virtue of a particular example newspapers have treated the case from every conceivable aspect. And so the controversy is again aroused, with more than usual intensity this time...
...subject for the debate is: "Resolved, That the jury system should be abolished." The Harvard team will journey to Philadelphia to meet the University of Pennsylvania others February 20. Five days later the Williams College team will come to Cambridge to argue with the University debaters on the same question...
...land because he owns the land, Mr. Astor discovered early the solace of the sea. Reporters cannot infest the oceans. The strain of question and answer to which a public figure is eternally subjected is particularly distasteful to the new commodore. Once, shrewdly said he: "The social gulf between Americans is not so much measured in money as in newspaper headlines...
Frank Ernest Gannett at 52 took into his family am year old child last week. The child had been looking for a father for six years. The question was considered eugenically and Mr. Gannett was chosen on his record as an honest publisher. The child is the Hartford Times and its addition brings Mr. Gannett's newspaper family to ten. Over $5,000,000, noted as the largest cash consideration ever involved in New England newspaper deals, was Mr. Gannett's price of fatherhood...
Today for the first time in its history the CRIMSON is giving one of its candidates a chance to express in print his frank opinion of a CRIMSON competition. Although the candidate in question is in the last stages of his competition and has consequently passed through the depression and discouragement of the first few weeks, his view of CRIMSON work is not blurred by the softening mist which separates the usual graduate editor from the scene of his undergraduate labors...