Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...other side. Is not all this rather a dangerous, not to say unmanly way of dodging a square look at the facts? Did not the Harvard speakers go to Sanders Theatre for the purpose of convincing three judges of acknowledged ability and impartiality that they could handle the question at issue better than any representatives of Yale? That was their one main object, and in that they failed. The vital point for Harvard debating now is not how we beat Yale and yet lost the debate, but why we were beaten. It matters comparatively little what we may at length...
...first of the competitive debates to choose a team from the Freshman Debating Club to speak against the Sophomore members of the Harvard Union, was held last evening in Sever 11. The question for debate was "Resolved, That Hawaii should be annexed to the United States as a self-governing territory, to be admitted as a state only with the consent of all the states." The trial was open to all members of the club...
Something must be done to prevent debates from degenerating on account of ambiguity in the question into the farce which last Friday's debate was from one point of view. We saw there two teams arguing on what were really two different questions, but which could yet both be deduced from the same subject for debate. In order that no more debates may be lost by such disagreements as to the meaning of the question, some radical reforms in the matter of question must be introduced. The questions must first be framed as simply as possible; and some further means...
...Question: "Resolved, That Hawaii should be annexed to the United States as a self-governing territory, to be admitted as a state only with the consent of all the states...
...member of the club may speak on either side of the question...