Word: toed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About seventy five men assembled in Sever 11 last evening to listen to the Harvard Union debate. After the minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted the following men were elected to memberships: W. B. Cohen, '91, Nathaniel Stevens, L. S., and F. W. Dallinger, '93.
Mr. C. P. Blaney, '90, introduced the question for the affirmative. His principal idea was to show the rapid downfall of the republican and the steady rise in power of the democratic party. The republican platform he considered under three heads: civil service, pensions and tariff. He closed his argument...
Mr. C. L. Griffin, L. S., then ably introduced the negative side of the question. He reviewed the platform of the republican party touching upon the public schools and metropolitan police system. Under the republican rule the system of high license has been established, which is acknowledged as the ideal...
In closing the debate for the negative Mr. F. W. Thayer L. S., said that he preferred to belong to a party with a future even brighter than its past. In a political question, he said, people are apt to take a superficial view of matters and draw from their...
When the debate was thrown open to the house several men spoke upon the question. The votes on the question were as follows: On merits of question, affirmative, 37; negative, 44. On merits of principal disputants, affirmative, 26; negative, 66. On debate as a whole, affirmative, 0; negative, 14.