Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Question: "Resolved, that social and political considerations speak for the maintenance of a protective tariff in the United States...
...first meeting for several weeks last evening. There was but a handful of men scattered about the room, and the meeting was called to order, as usual, after time. After the preliminary business was transacted, the first gentleman on the affirmative, Mr. E. H. Savary, spoke on the question for the evening: "Resolved, that contested election cases of members of Congress should be tried by the Supreme Court." The present method, said he, of deciding contested elections, although practicable in the early days of the Republic, is now bungling and unjust. Of the cases already brought before Congress, three-quarters...
...week delegations from the college hold services in the neighboring villages. Snow shoeing is a very popular sport. Large parties go out every Wednesday and Saturday for a tramp on the deep snow of the Berkshire Hills. A great deal of interest has been recently aroused in the prohibition question. A club of students has been formed for debating the subject...
...Question: "Ought the Blair Educational Bill to pass...
...philosophy of evolution concerns a question of progress. What we wish is that Darwinism shall account not merely of the survival of the fittest, but also for the arrival of the fittest, and that it has not given us yet. Asa Gray said years ago that the survival of the fittest did not explain that inscrutable something which causes the fittest to appear. We are all here to demand loyalty to the self-evident truths on which science rests. The unsearchable wisdom of God in the source of all forms. It is safest for you to look to Germany...