Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question for the debate this year was proposed by Yale, and Harvard chose the affirmative, the choice being put off until after the trial debate had been held. The question is: "Resolved, That the United States should annex the Hawaiian Islands...
Best general references: James Bryce in No. Am. Rev., v. 153, p. 641 (Dec., 1891) for general aspects of question and conditions of south; Thomas N. Page in same, v. 154, p. 401 (March, '92) on present state of negro; for progress of negro see Dawson in same (Feb., 97), v. 164, p. 191; for meaning of negro supremacy, Wade Hampton in Forum V, p. 383, June, '88; Public Opinion, VIII, 551, IX, 240, 263, 286; N. Y. Evening Post, July 21, 1890; B. T. Washington's speech at Atlanta Exposition, 1895, in Public Opinion...
Three Harvard debaters defeated a team from Dartmouth at Dorchester on Wednesday evening. The question was: "Resolved, That municipalities of 25,000 or more inhabitants, in the United States, should own and operate plants for supplying water, light, and surface transportation." This was the question on which Dartmouth defeated Williams last year and two of the three speakers Wednesday were members of last year's Dartmouth team...
...Question: "Resolved, That at the coming election the people of Cambridge should vote to continue their no-license policy...
...first will be held on December 6, and ten men will be retained, from whom the team of four will be picked on December 20. The regular Freshman-Sophomore debate does not come until May, and new trials will be held for choosing the speakers for that debate. The question for the regular debate next Monday is: "Resolved, That there should be compulsory arbitration in labor disputes between employers and employees...