Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard Union debate. Sever 11. 7.30 p. m. Question: "Resolved, that the Parochial School system is dangerous to American institutious...
What to do with and how to educate the Indian race is a question which presents itself to the mind of every thinking man who is at all interested in the political problems before the country to-day. A few young men of the Indians are at present in some of our Western colleges, and a very few are graduated annually from Hampton College in Virginia. It is safe to say that the average man thoughout the East to-day has but very little idea of the great progress the Indians have been making in civilization and general culture during...
English 6. Oral debate. University 16, 3 p. m. Question, "Should Home-Rule be granted to Ireland?" Principal disputants: Affirmative, Mr. E. A. Harriman and F. W. Knowles; negative, Mr. J. M. Hallowell and Mr. H. W. Hervey. Open to all students of the University...
...mentioning it, I really hope you won't mind, but your work is not quite up to Dickens or Thackeray or Macaulay. It's really of no consequence, though, and I do hope you won't be offended," etc., etc. It seems to me that the gentleman in question should learn to criticize fairly and squarely himself, before inditing such a malicious and maligning tirade against a conscientious and able instructor...
...recognize while human nature is what it is, that many will aspire to special excellence. It would be a curious problem in experimental mechanics to decide just how a man should be built to use his strength to the greatest advantage. Dr. Sargent raises the question, but leaves the answer to time and statistics. There is one very important aspect of the subject that we are glad is not overlooked. It is whether the athlete has the strength of constitution necessary to stand the strain of severe muscular exertion. We notice that in the cases of two of the three...