Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general the Dartmouth athletic body has shown good judgment. It has accepted the most important suggestion, has admitted an open question and possible need for action in regard to the second in importance, and has turned down the one which remedied the lesser evil and which gave fewest indications of a practical improvement. Every revolutionary plan can stand some modification, the danger always being that the modifying process completely devitalize the original. The result in this case still retains much of its former power along with a few valuable additions...
...attendant upon the abolition of the present system of scouting appear certainly to outweigh the arguments raised by the Athletic Association in its favor. Scouting is an undoubted expanse and has by its very nature become highly competitive. Even from a strictly technical football point of view it it questionable as to how much a knowledge of the other team's plays improves the calibre of the play. The other objections are negative in quality in that they raise a question as to the power of either college to live up fully to the spirit of the agreement...
Underground Motif. Among potent U. S. import-export houses information circulated last week, that the German delegation at Geneva has been instructed to sound out the U. S. delegation upon the possibility of an understanding between the U. S. Administration and the German chemical and other trusts. Prospectively the question will be asked whether lower U. S. tariffs can possibly be obtained on certain German goods, in return for favors of an equal value to U. S. businessmen from the German trusts...
...places several selections to which he assigns the term "Eighteen-Eighties and Nineties", and which serve as a sort of prelude to the work of a more modern tone. Since these divisions are presumably purely chronological there should be no objection, but nevertheless there will be readers who will question the propriety of omitting Hardy and Housman from poets of the Twentieth Century, since the work of the former at least is quite as modern as that of others--William Vaughan Moody for instance--who are placed in the latter list...
...clock offers another moot question to the Vagabondian public when Professor Demos explains William James' Conception of Free Will to those who make Emerson D a throw back to the Platonic Academy. At the same hour Dr. Mason in Emerson F will expound "Marxism and Bolshevism," a lecture which should draw heavily from those who are interested in socialistic ideas...