Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wrightington '97 opened the debate for Harvard. After outlining the question, he showed that we have our existing gold standard as the result of a national evolution from the more bulky mediums. Bimetallists propose to go back to a money that has been discarded in this natural evolution. They would have us abandon a natural and automatic currency for one that depends on legislation...
...annual Harvard-Yale debate will take place tonight in Sanders Theatre. The question for debate will be: "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." Harvard will support the affirmative. Each speaker will be allowed twelve minutes for his main speech and also a rebuttal speech of five minutes...
Professor J. W. White invites the Classical Club to attend a lecture by Professor Wheeler of Cornell, on Crete and the Eastern question. The lecture will be given before the Archxological Institute of America, in Steinert Hall, Boston, Friday...
...real safeguard is in the sturdy sense of the American people. To seek some object first and then to seek the means to gain it, is illogical. To get good legislation, we first need to get good public men. To do that civil service is needed. In, say, a question of tariff legislation, keen strife between groups of producers is inevitable. If we commit such a task to men who peddle votes for places or a President who peddles places for votes, poor results are a foregone conclusion. So it is in all forms of legislation. The first thing needed...
...days off, and the men chosen to represent Harvard have almost completed their long and careful preparation for the contest. On this occasion, as in former years, the three speakers have been greatly helped in their work by the alternate, who has not only studied the question with them, but has also spent considerable time in speaking against them on the other side of the question. It seems only just that alternates should receive more general recognition than they have in former years, and it would be a step in the right direction to have the alternates for both universities...