Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sargent has not yet decided whether he will accept the position offered him at Madison Square...
...often doubted whether college students as a class ever maintain an active interest in the current events and discussions of American politics. An interest in the details of party management, in the workings of the spoils system, and in the glories of American stump oratory and buncomb is hardly to be expected of them. But that they do generally keep up with the current drift of discussions of political principles to as great an extent as almost any other class in the community is, we believe, the case. In our own case, this abundant interest in current politics and party...
...system of self-government by college students is not altogether a new and untried experiment in the history of education. Whether the frequenters at the Academy at Athens in classic times were held under the strict sway of a model "paternal" government, of the most approved American pattern, or whether they thrived upon elective courses in conduct, as well as in studies (see Professor Clapp in the last Nation, who believes election in one necessarily implies election in the other) is a question perhaps beyond our powers to determine. Young America, alas, did not exist in those days...
...properly invite the repentant, but not the unrepentant Magdalen or roue to her house. For our part, we acknowledge a shiver when we hear a presumably pure woman speak familiarly the name of Oscar Wilde. We know that there may be men in the company who will wonder whether she has read his foulest story ever put into English verse. Delicate lips do not like to repeat the name of a certain innocent but foulscented beast. Much more may they avoid the name of the author of `Charmides...
...known yet whether Conkling will accept the nomination for the supreme bench...