Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second interclub debate will be held on Friday evening, April 2. The men representing the Union are W. Denman L. S. and W. H. Beal '97. The Forum's representatives are W. T. B. Williams '97 and W. J. Truesdell '97. The question will be "Resolved, That the intervention of Greece in the Cretan affair is justifiable." After the opening speeches the debate will be open to members of the clubs from the floor...
...Question: "Resolved, That Hawai 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...
Fletcher Dobyns continued the speeches in the most forceful and the best received speech of the evening. He said: This is the most uninteresting debate I have ever attended. The gentlemen from New haven received from us a definite question. We at Harvard have understood that the question is, should we have monometallism? The negative has not shown that any other system would work. They have almost failed to even touch the question. If any advantages are to come from what these gentlemen say, it is more money. That might apply to conditions years ago, but not now. Now, credit...
...last speaker, who closed the debate, was C. U. Clark of Yale. He endeavored to show that the question was not of adopting some time in the future but at the present: The gentleman has said that the world has been prosperous, but solely on account of the single gold standard there has been great distress. The affirmative have not conducted their debate practically but theoretically. The United States can adopt the gold standard in but two ways. Both of these would bring trouble. The single gold standard is very bad. It has been the cause of all the evils...
...second time since intercollegiate debating contests were established between Harvard and Yale the debate has been won by Yale. The question for debate was: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt definitively the single gold standard and should decline to enter a bimetallic league even if Great Britain, France and Germany should be willing to enter such a league." The contest was one of the closest ever held, as is shown by the fact that the judges were out twenty minutes before they came to a final decision. The speaking on both sides was of a very high order...