Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Question: "Resolved, That municipalities in times of distress should give work to the unemployed...
...find that after all the "Tree" exercises are not in such imminent danger of being abolished as students were at first led to believe. The Class Day Committee was yesterday told that its last set of proposed changes will serve as a basis for an adjustment of the debated question; and that the position of the committee of the Corporation on the "scrimmage" has changed from what we were led to believe was their immovable opposition to an apparent readiness to agree to the changes proposed by the Class Day Committee...
That such would be the outcome of the proposed extension is the opinion not only of the writer, but of many Seniors, and, it would seem, of most graduates. Out of nine alumni recently consulted on this question,- of the classes of '41, '46, '50, '61, '64, '68, '81, '83, and '84,- only two favored the proposed change; the rest were unanimous in their belief that a longer celebration than has hitherto been customary would inevitably be more elaborate, more expensive, and, in general, such that the poor man would be sharply divided from the rich; and Class Day would...
...Question: "Resolved, That the election of United States Senators should be by direct popular vote...
...point, as positive as that which props their first indictment. Certainly the present writer in his generation did not go hence unscathed, but he is equally certain that the trifling irregularity in which his collar button suffered fracture was untainted by any ignoble motives of revenge. However, this whole question is one to be determined by the individual members of the class. They might draw up a solemn covenant to act together in amity, dignity and fraternity on the occasion. Surely to respect such a covenant would not be a test too superhuman for Christian forbearance...