Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Mitchell's doubt, hampered by the defects of an editor's point of view, weighed down with the responsibilities of circulation and making up his issues, is probably justified. He concludes by asking, "To put things plainly: don't we like a boxing match better than Lowes-Dickinson?" This question is as bad as the uneasy choice which Mr. McCombs offered us between militarism and pacifism. Some of us like good boxing matches and find it not inconsistent with a fondness for stimulating lectures or reading. Compared with most professional boxing-matches, the meet at the Union a short time...
Columbia will always defend the negative of the question: "Resolved. That the United States should immediately and materially increase its army and navy...
...Another question the Council has taken up has been the question of compulsory membership in the Union. A committee was appointed to take charge of this and several open discussions have been held at the Union...
Suggestions have been received by the committee concerning the question of emphasizing the scores in order that the intercollegiate indoor championship might be settled in the same way as the outdoor ones in the spring. This point was considered at one of the meetings when the plans for the first indoor meet were being drawn up, and it was decided then that the present non-scoring system would cause the smaller colleges to enter, and make the competition keener. It was also felt that it would be unfair to the coaches and track athletes to have them trained to their...
...individuality of opinion among Harvard men is not only that normally existing among any representative group of men, but is especially fostered by the traditions of which this University is proud. Upon no great large question has anything like a unanimity of opinion prevailed. In 1912, for example, a straw vote taken in the University, favored Wilson; yet his strongest opponent was a Harvard graduate and member of the Board of Overseers. Our irate critics should, perhaps, have expected that Harvard would troop meekly into the Progressive camp. In regard to Mr. Brandeis, the expressions of opinion in the University...