Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more than fifty men were present at the Union meeting last evening. This is a surprisingly small number, as the question debated is one that is stirring our nation at present, and therefore should be of great interest to us all. The question before the meeting read thus: "Resolved, that the causes for divorce should be made uniform throughout the United States by constitutional amendment...
...Shoemaker, '89, then spoke for the affirmative. The question before us is one of extreme dignity, said the speaker, and should not be considered merely in the light of state law; but it is a question of the disunion of families, and therefore should be regarded of the highest import to the rulers of our country. Like the tariff, it is bound to become a national question in spite of our efforts to the contrary. The speaker then went on to show the impracticability of several methods of changing the law, and finally ended by discussing the advantages of constitutional...
...Oxnard spoke next for the negative. When we make a law a part of our national constitution it becomes solidified there, and is not easily ejected. This question of divorce is one of the experimented sciences, and the safest place for its laws at present is in the state government, which is more easily changed. There is an advantage in state divorce laws, which is that each state sees, and avoids the errors of other state laws, and in this way, aids in obtaining perfectness...
Vote on merits of question: Affirmative, 41; negative, 10. Vote on principal disputants: Affirmative, 25, negative, 22. Vote on debate as a whole: affirmative, 20; negative...
...even vulgar attack upon Harvard methods in athletics. Worse than the sneer at Harvard's ill-success of the last three years, is the implied accusation of insincerity on the part of the of the leaders in athletics. We do not wish further to characterize the article in question. Harvard men may read it for themselves...