Word: questions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the Freshman Debating Club next Monday evening the debate will be on the question: "Resolved, That immigration to the United States should be further restricted...
Thus a committee appointed by the Faculty will be able to feel that not only is the general plan of adopting a course of physical training here, one which is approved by those who have considered the question carefully, but also that a course counting toward a degree would meet with favor. Further, Mr. Hemenway's liberal offer in guarantee of the expense that would be incurred in adding physical training to the University curriculum, greatly simplifies the matter, and will certainly help to hasten a decision...
...postal vote on the question of the extension of the suffrage to all graduates of five years' standing from any department of the University, may be taken as conclusive evidence that the majority of Harvard's alumni fell convinced that the step is a natural one to take, and one bearing out the liberal policy of the University. Those who have been opposed to the extension are, it is true, very numerous, and have felt strongly that they had good reasons in so doing. They have feared that broadening the suffrage to include graduates of other colleges who have received...
...proper legislation, an extension of the right of voting for overseers, hitherto restricted to members of the Alumni Association, to all graduates of five years' standing from any department of the University." At the annual meeting of the Alumni Association last Commencement, it was voted to submit this question by mail to all graduates, and to limit the time for receiving votes to sixty days. The time limit expired on Monday...
...Question: "Resolved, That a compulsory course of physical training, combined with lectures on hygiene, be instituted for Freshmen in Harvard College, the same to count as a half-course towards a degree...