Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevents the mention of but two notorious instances of his instability. He decided to issue a proclamation of emancipation in July, 1863, but when Seward showed him its impropriety at the time, he admitted his error, pocketed his paper and for months later talked on both sides of the question. He at first decided to write a paper justifying the action of Captain Wilkes in seizing the Confederate Commissioners from the British steam packet Trent, but shortly joined with his Cabinet in making a humiliating apology to Great Britain...
...Voted,. . . . to obtain sketches from Mr. Charles A. Coolidge for plans for replacing the wooden stands," ran in part the vote upon the Stadium question which the Corporation passed last Monday. This excerpt from the resolution brings forcibly to mind a realization of the architectural monopoly long in existance at Harvard...
...criticism of the work of Mr. Coolidge or of his firm is embodied in the question which naturally arises: is it best for Harvard to be planned by one architect in these years of material development? Harvard is so architecturally heterogeneous that any attempt to make it all Georgian in style is unnecessary and sometimes unfortunate. The architectural style of Massachusetts Hall is not naturally adapted to such large blocks of brick and mortar as Widener Library, designed by Trumbauer fifteen years ago, or the new chemical laboratory...
...Furthermore, Mr. Slocum has contributed, in a journal of literary merit, an acute and forceful analysis of an important educational question. This Ajax must not be left in the middle of the road to defy steam-rollers. He is too nice and too generous-hearted for road material...
...recommendation voted by the Corporation as a settlement of the Stadium question is a compromise, with concessions to two opposing parties. Critics of the proposed enlargement will find in the enclosure of the open end of the Stadium no alarming stimulus to huger crowds and to overemphasis of football beyond its proper sphere. There will be a slight gain in seating capacity to satisfy the advocates of progress along sport lines, and at all events the plan will insure a certain permanence of the status of the Stadium infinitely preferable to the old haphazard system of temporary stands...