Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIR: I regret that the Harvard freshman crew will be unable to accept the challenge of the Yale freshmen to row a race at New London next June. It is out of the question to row two races in the short time the crew will be at New London (?) year by (?) that we are committed to row Columbia this year, so must decline your challenge...
...question before the Union for debate last night was, "Resolved, That the annexation of Canada would be for the best interests of the United States...
...Britain is willing, and considered the advantages of union from that standpoint. He described the wealth and resources of the country, at the same time showing that we are rapidly exhausting our own country in the resources in which Canada is rich; so that it will soon be a question of owning Canada or pouring our money into her treasury...
...negative, recapitulating in the main, the arguments already advanced by that side. He thought also that the arguments of the leaders upon the affirmative were inconsistent, and was unwilling to concede the position which they took, that Canada desires annexation and that England is willing, declaring that the question did not confine the debate to that ground merely...
...Question: "Resolved, That the annexation of Canada would be for the best interests of the United States...