Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WHETHER it is advisable to interrupt one's collegiate course seems to be a question of doubt with most of the professors, and any interruption is generally discouraged...
...propose here to discuss the claims of oratory. Everybody - even our conservative friend of the Advocate - who knows the means by which free speech is made influential in a democracy like ours, will, theoretically at least, take its utility for granted. The question at issue is the time at which the study and practice of the art should be commenced. According to our author, "a man must have a vast number of well-arranged facts and settled opinions before he can speak off-hand with ease." In other words, after years of cloister student-life, in which his learning...
...feeling among the students in regard to the place where the next regatta should be held is strongly in favor of Saratoga. Springfield and New London are out of the question, and the dispute now is between Saratoga and Troy. It seems likely at present that the delegates will be instructed to vote in favor of Saratoga. There is a bitter feeling in the minds of many against the men who had the regatta in charge last year at Springfield; as immediately after the race, Cornell's position in the race was telegraphed over the country as eleventh, when...
...question of temperance, and the prohibitory law, so often discussed by our newspapers, demanding, as it does, a large share of the public attention, and in nearly every part of the country the subject of legislative enactments, although hitherto it has been alluded to but casually in the College press, deserves the thought of those undergraduates interested in social and moral problems, who expect hereafter to engage in affairs and deal with the tangled knots of reform. Delicate to handle it undoubtedly is, like everything that has to do with the practice or views of a man's associates. Moreover...
...influenced far more by their previous prejudices or a desire to oblige, than by a belief in its necessity or advantage. But it would not alone be absurd; it would be pernicious as well. Indeed, it is an objection that holds as well against the discussion of the question as against the pledge, that some men in defiance, and to show their contempt, rush into excesses they otherwise had never approached. It is nice because it is naughty. But to overthrow this system of pledging, it is necessary to discuss the subject, and to advocate some other remedy for intemperance...