Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Articles I-VIII settles by compromise the three mile limit and headland question.- (a) A compromise is the best way of settling the different claims:- Dr. Snow in Forum for Dec. 1887, p. 347.- (b) Area yielded is to our advantage; Senate Minority Report. p. 89.- (c) We yielded inshore fisheries and they are of little value; Edmunds in Senate Report in Message on Fishery Treaty 1888, p. 584; Concessions yielded by Great Britain in Speech of Saulsbury, Congressional Record...
...meeting of the Harvard Union was called to order last night shortly after half past seven, by President Thayer. After the secretary's report had been read and approved, the committee on a new shingle made a report which was accepted. The question for debate at the next meeting was then chosen; this question is, "Resolved, That independence in politics should be the rule and not the exception...
...Harvard Union Debate, postponed from yesterday, will take place in Sever 11 this evening at half-past seven. The question is: "Resolved, That the United States should not materially increase its navy." The principal disputants are, affirmative, W. Austin, L. S., A. H. Williams, '91; negative, M. B. May. L. S., A. P. Butterworth...
...four years Harvard has been slowly but surely going down in athletics. In the face of this, and in view of bad records, our almost clean score of defeats in the last three years, the mere fast that a mass meeting of Harvard students voted even to consider the question will put Harvard in an odious and contemiuous light. Very fortunately the committee appointed will not have power to decide the matter. It will justly be brought before a meeting of students who will then have considered the matter, who will not be taken by surprise, and who, unless Harvard...
...meeting. He said that for years those most deeply interested in the athletic welfare of the university had felt that ultimately all our athletic contests would be carried on with Yale only; that many Harvard men felt that the time had come for the University to consider the question seriously; and in closing he moved that a committee of five be appointed, to consist of two graduates and three undergraduates, which should have power to consider and act. The motion was seconded by Messrs. Willard and Butter. Wetmore, '89, moved to amend by making the three undergradnate members...