Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Question: "Resolved, That the action of the minority of the House of Representatives, in preventing the passage of the bill for refunding the direct tax, was justifiable...
...faculty meeting, yesterday afternoon, no action was taken on the New York alumni baseball petition, and none will be taken on the baseball question until the Board of Overseers has expressed its views on the committee's report on athletic which was presented last week...
...greatly to be regretted that the faculty have seen fit to delay action on the petition presented by the Alumni on the question of playing with professionals. If the question is to be decided at all, it is much better that it should be decided at once. We have faith enough in the members of the faculty to know that they are unwilling to decide such a momentous question without due deliberation, but we cannot see why the faculty should wait till the Overseers make their report. As we understand it, the petition was presented to the faculty...
...difficult to understand how a fair-minded body of men could have clamly and deliberately drawn such an exaggerated conclusion as the recommendation of the entire abolishion of intercollegiate contests. This conclusion is not justified by the premises, as any candid observer of both sides of the question must allow. The report says, for example, that athletics have tended to become the ruling passion at Harvard and that they have grown to this enormous degree of importance in the last twenty-five years. The committee has been misled here by the fact that athletics is the one thing in which...
...Question: "Resolved, That the action of the minority of the House of Representatives, in preventing the passage of the bill for refunding the direct tax, was justifiable...