Word: questioned
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...rule pursued in these meetings in regard to the question of sparring, is, I believe, to make the class known as the featherweight, include all men whose weight is, or under, 125 pounds. To a person unaccustomed to the ring a matter of four or five pounds in the difference in weight of the two contestants is of no moment. A difference of a few pounds in the weight of two heavyweights would not be considered of much importance; but this disparity in the case of featherweights is of the greatest moment. The difference in the comparative strength...
...Question: "Resolved, That the United States should assume immediately the complete ownership and management of telegraphs...
...next debate, on Thursday evening, will be on whether the causes of divorce should be made uniform throughout the United States by constitutional amendment. Articles on both sides of the question may be found under "Harvard Union" in the English alcove. "Divorce" is one of the subjects discussed by Professor Peabody in Philosophy eleven. And it should be said that it is one of the most important and difficult questions with which our States have at present to deal. Because of the dangerous increase of divorce, the consequent alarm of the people, and the rise and spread of agitation...
CHARLES COPELAND, Secretary.ST. PAUL'S SOCIETY.- Meeting at 6.45. Rev. William Lawrence will present a very important question...
...Marsh in translating a portion of the "Wasps" of Aristophanes is very courageous in his attempts to turn Greek slang of the fifth century B. C. into the modern language of the street. The translator gives us a spicy bit of reading, but it is a question whether he has not gone too far in his desire to be true to his author. We are inclined to think that there is a hint of an anachronism here, but, however that may be, we have no difficulty in understanding Aristophanes through the medium of such a translation...