Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union. Before an enthusiastic, responsive audience which packed the room and listened motionless throughout three hours, the divine and the psychologist thrust and parried on the subject: "Resolved, That this house believes that the growing tendency toward Agnosticism and Atheism is undermining our social structure". Dr. Straton, upholding this question, received 157 of his listeners' votes; Professor Givler won those...
...that is another matter. The trouble with most college literary magazines is that they do try to compromise--that they are timid, and afraid (this fear itself being philistine) to go all out for literary distinction. Playing safe, they achieve a kind of dreary neutrality. And it is a question whether this does them any good. One wonders whether it mightn't be proved that it is precisely when such papers are most successfully "literary" that they are financially healthiest...
...White House and its grounds are now worth some 22 millions. No other Washington residence rates so high. The tax on it would be $374,000 per annum-if the U. S. had to pay property taxes to the District of Columbia. A controversy has been bubbling on this question of tax-exempt U. S. properties. Tax Assessor Richards' figures showed that if all taxable U. S. property in the District paid the present rate of $1.70 per $100, the total would be $7,990,000. The U. S. at present pays the District a lump sum of nine...
...morose undergraduate author or at the Alumni publication which would print such fiction. But after all this is merely another of those merry occasions which gather such enviable publicity for two great universities, and even an avid press might eventually weary of petty bickerings, founded on untruths. One might question the point or the intended moral of such noble statements as. "In New Haven one is often on the same terms with one's janitor as with one's rooms-mate." And one might try for hours to decipher the meaning of such a magnificent collection of words...
...incubus on the high schools. Whereas formerly the issue being debated has been regarded as of at least minor importance, it now received no attention whatever. And a million high school boys and girls, who find little of the abundant humor that the Debating Union finds in the prohibition question, are forced to follow in imitation of those who had hitherto been believed the most trust-worthy of guides...