Word: womans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...borrowed from the piece of Neophron, but great skill is shown in leading up to the catastrophe. The poet makes us understand the conduct of Medea, although no real sympathy with her unnatural deed is possible. Medea herself was, in the minds of the Athenians, a real and terrible woman, who could no more be explained away as a moon myth than could Xantippe or Aspasia...
...Morton, '92, of the affirmative, opened the debate. Where women are made citizens, they should have all the rights of naturalization as well as man. To prevent women from voting is to depopulate a country of just so many citizens. Woman is said to be indifferent to diplomacy and statesmanship, but that is only because she is given no chance to take any part in them...
...Griffing, '89, then spoke for the negative. Woman comes out of her natural sphere when she takes part in political affairs. Her place is at home -a position given her by divine sanction-and when she assumes man's work she acts in opposition to nature...
...Krebs, L. S., then spoke for the negative. There are three reasons why women should not vote, namely: Because of their religious fanaticism, their ignorance, their inability to perform the duties of citizens. Woman is controlled in her actions by prejudices, passions, and sympathy, and therefore cannot be trusted to affairs of high import...
...books reserved by the Harvard Union for the debate to-morrow evening were taken from the shelves last week by mistake. Reference books may be found on the English 6 shelves at present, as the debate in that course will be on the same subject as the Union debate-"Woman's Suffrage...