Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tariff issue Mr. Paine sees as a question of continuing the progressive legislation of President Wilson or of returning to the "old Mark Hanna type of protection." Mr. Hughes, however, is just as fairly and honestly opposed to "the artificial protection given to special interests" as the framers of the Underwood tariff, but he certainly does not, as the Democrats do, advocate a return to the condition of economic depression that existed before the war, the return that existed before the war, the return that will come when Europe will be able to provide for herself and will flood...
Here in Harvard we have always stood for free speech. For a century we have cherished the principle of freedom in religion. There is still a question, how-ever, as to whether the average Harvard man leaves college with free ideals...
...educated man must strike fundamentals; he must lay hold of great issues he must take his stand definitely upon the large questions of the day. How many of us try to satisfy this aim by pondering a few minutes over admission to the Union or the Smoker question? What we need to do is to abstract time for the study of basic principles. The college man never realizes how much spare time he has. Any Law School man will verify that. Why not use some of this spare time to create an individual and constructive idealism? On this firm basis...
...Perry believes, however, that so radical a change would at present be inadequate. "The suggestion that professional coaches be eliminated," he said, "evolves the old question of doing a thing well if it be done at all. It is a concept that underlies all the teaching of the curriculum, and one of the fundamentals of the scholastic code. If high proficiency on the athletic field is not a corollary of excellence in the class room it may at least be regarded as a related analogy. That Yale--or any other university-- could from her own resources, "graduate and undergraduate,' develop...
...there is an overbalancing weight of desirable features. Were Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania to enlist themselves in a body designed to place a limit upon the salaries of coaches, the number of coaches engaged, team expenses--in short, to curtail and generally supervise the whole question of athletic economics, the effect would be immediate and farreaching...