Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regular meeting of the Sophomore Debating Club last night the question, "Resolved, That the United States should abandon its policy of international isolation," was debated. B. Brooks and L. B. Shay spoke on the affirmative and W. M. Chadbourne and A. L. Becker on the negative. The debate was awarded to the negative. The speaking was much better than usual and should have merited a larger audience...
Last night's mass meeting and the demonstration which ensued, will serve to make clear what is true Harvard sentiment on the war question, unqualified support of the admioistration now that hostilities have begun, and a desire to have the University carry her full share...
There will be a mass meeting of students of all departments of the University in the Fogg Lecture Room, Wednesday evening at 7.15 o'clock. The question of a gift of colors to U. S. S. S. Harvard will be considered, and each man is requested to come prepared to subscribe a small...
...interclass debate with the Sophomores to be held on May 16. The following men were chosen: J. C. Mangan, D. C. Hirsch, J. H. A. Symonds, with V. Custis alternate. The judges were: L. E. Guillow '98, G. J. Holliday 1 L., and W. A. Adams '98. The question was "Resolved, That the United States should abandon its policy of international isolation...
...last number of the New York Nation contains a letter from R. C. Ringwalt '95 entitled "Judging College Debates." The point made in the letter is that judges should be instructed "to render their decision not on the merits of the question as debated but on the merits of the debating entirely." His objection to the present system is that "in judging the merits of the question as debated" the judges must unconsciously be influenced by their personal prejudices, and that moreover it is almost impossible to obtain a question that will furnish equal opportunities to both sides...