Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...resolutions of the recent inter-collegiate athletic conference have called out a chorus of disapproval from several quarters, and it is evidently more than doubtful whether five colleges can be got to approve them. Harvard and Princeton have adopted them. Brown has refuse. There is no chance that Yale will accept them, and even if Columbia and Wesleyan should, the defection of Yale will make any attempt at union nearly impossible. Whether we call Harvard and Yale universities or only college like the rest, they are so much larges, and their stake in the matter is so much greater...
...seventh resolution forbids boat races longer than three miles. The important ground for this is the danger to health from a four-mile race. But if there is any such danger, any college which recognizes it will have to stop four-mile races whether other colleges do or not. If Harvard and Princeton believe that four miles is too long a course, and it can be proved by medical authority, Yale and other colleges will almost certainly have to come to the same conclusion...
...interest to note that the games will probably be held at the Polo grounds instead of the Manhattan grounds, as at first announced. We may add that at the recent convention, all the delegates reported themselves as opposed to the athletic resolutions. In doubt as to whether the matter would be brought up, however, only a few had received positive instructions to vote against the resolutions. At Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, the faculties themselves are decidedly opposed to the resolutions...
...will be on the "Wages Question" and Mr. Edward Atkinson will be the lecturer. Mr. Atkinson is well known as a business man who has turned his attention to the subject of political economy and he professes to have found a solution to the problem of what affects wages. Whether he has succeeded or not in a correct solution his opinion will be well worth hearing. The remaining lectures are to be a review of the three great industries, cotton, iron and wool. These three words are constantly in the mouths of the people, as the subject of tariff reform...
...will be necessary to let the Heliotype Company know by the middle of the week whether the albums are wanted or not. All members of the class who wish an album, can sign their names either at Pach's studio or at Leavitt and Peirce's. Unless one hundred names are secured before Wednesday night no albums can be procured...