Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps the most controversial point in educational discussion today hinges upon the relation between the university and the world. The amazing growth of the technical graduate school in all the universities of this country, and the increasing emphasis in many upon the training of teachers has raised the question of whether education can be divorced from life, whether too little attention is not being paid by universities to the practical problems to be encountered by its graduates. The investigation of the criminal procedure of Greater Boston which is to be undertaken by the faculty of the Law School exemplifies...
...usual will deal with some object pertaining to French affairs. This year the subject for debate is: Resolved, That a levy on capital as a solution of France's present financial difficulties is undesirable. The trials will consist of five minute speeches on either side of the question...
...display of obstinacy which has thus far characterized the present conference of the League indicates that nationalism still continues to bar the progress of international cooperation. The question of enlarging the council has proved a serious stumbling block. By promising Germany a permanent seat in the select little coterie of the inner chamber, the Locarno signatories felt that they were merely restoring their erstwhile foe to her former place among the European powers...
Last week I heard Professor Yeomans in Government 19b discuss the question. "What is Interstate Commerce?" The regular sequence of lectures in a single course is a weary thing at best, but Professor Yeomans' subject at 9 o'clock this morning is just sufficiently related to last week's to tempt me. He will speak in Harvard 2 on "What is regulation of commerce?" Probably the most entertaining answer to this question, could be given by the Van Sweringen brothers...
...will appreciate the relief it will be to me, as I start out to visit the leading cities of the United States and the capitals of our dominion, to know that the question of financial gain from business developments has entirely passed out of my life...