Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classics on their part have the broader claim of being the foundation on which all that has followed has been built. They are full of the greatest beauties, the sublimest thoughts that have ever been recorded. How to choose between the classics and modern languages becomes a hard question. To abandon either entirely for the other is unquestionably wrong. To devote considerable time to the study and appreciation of them both is, it seems to us, the happy mean and the most rational course...
...special meeting of the senior class of Columbia College was held Thursday, Dec: 22, 1887. The question of having a Memorial was brought forward, and in the discussion it was suggested that the class should found an annual prize for a junior oratorical contest. It was proposed to subscribe $500 this year, and, by annual subscriptions, to increase the fund to $1,000. The matter was laid on the table...
...Harvard Union held a very spirited debate last evening on the question "Resolved That the general policy outlined in President Cleveland's Message should be adopted by Congress...
...able and to the point. Mr. Sanford closed the debate for the affirmative and Mr. Norton for the negative. The subjects of pig-iron and wool were freely discussed, many citing their personal experience in dealing with these articles. The votes were as follows: On the merits of the question, affirmative, 31; negative, 27; on the merits of the argument, affirmative, 14; negative, 4; on the merits of the principal disputants, affirmative, 29; negative...
While discussing this question of the management of the athletic teams, we desire to draw the attention of the freshman class to the fact that a debt is still hanging over the eleven. That a debt, small one though it is, should still exist at this late hour, strikes us as showing a fault of management rather than a refusal on the part of the class to remove it by subscription...