Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...theory at least, all political elements of the nation, has seen a trying period in English development. It has had to face the problems of directing a great war; it has had brought before it internal problems of social and economic reorganization; and it has had to contend with questions of race and empire whose seriousness cannot be overestimated. Under such a condition of affairs internal trouble and frequent dissatisfaction with the government's policies have only been natural. The labor question has at all times been grave. The conduct of the war has no doubt occasioned numerous scandals...
...last night's meeting of the Athletic Committee, the question of sports in the fall was discussed at considerable length, and, although no definite action can be taken until Dean Briggs has consulted with Deans Corwin and McClenahan of Yale and Princeton, the general attitude was in favor of some form of athletics. Dean Briggs made the following statement after the meeting...
...committee took action on the question of the athletic status of men who are taking the early finals. They agreed that these men should be eligible for all contests until they actually leave College. All candidates for the June undergraduate camp will be permitted to play until the camp opens, unless they leave Cambridge for intensive training. All men who do remain in College to play athletics, however, are expected to attend all their classes...
...student who is under age desire to render immediate service in the war, especially where there is personal danger; and yet to do so may not be the greatest service he can render to the country. Men who are responsible for the conduct of the war, who see the question in the large, who are thinking of the human resources of the nation as a whole, seem to be generally of opinion that college students will be in the end more profitable if they continue their education until they are of age, and then use that education for the benefit...
...When France demands that Alsace-Lorraine be returned to her, it is because these territories were torn away 47 years ago. It is a question of right, and right you cannot bargain with. We did not want this war, we did not prepare for it--it was waged against us with the most utter disregard of the laws of humanity and we prefer to die than to fail in our demand for justice...