Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Young Men's Christian Association held a meeting on Tuesday evening to discuss methods for uplifting the poor in Boston. Professor F. G. Peabody made some remarks on the subject...
...members of the Facultys, two graduates and one undergraduate of Harvard, Yale and Princeton, together with the captains of the Pennsylvania and Wesleyan elevens, will meet at New York to-day in a conference to discuss the foot-ball question. Prof. Byerly and Dr. Sargent, Fiske, '86, Cook, '85, and Captain Holden, are the delegates from Harvard...
...Bible, in particular, has never received the attention to which its peculiar literary merits entitle it. An attempt has been made to convince the public that as a translation it is a poor and inadequate piece of work. That question it is not worth while here to discuss; but it still bids fair to remain among the imperishable classics of our tongue. For its extraordinary merits as a piece of English place it above the rank of a translation and transform it into something only less original and native to the intellectual soil than the work of Shakspere or Milton...
...Harvard Union meets this evening to discuss the Coercion Bill. The following gentlemen are principal disputants: Affirmative, Mr. Charles Warren, '89, Mr. W. C. Green, '89; negative, Mr. A. P. Butterworth, '89, Mr. Walter Coulson...
About fifty members of the Co-operative Society met last evening in Sever 11 to discuss the new plan for the conduction of the Society, published in Wednesday's issue. Professor Taussig explained the provisions of the new scheme, which were adopted by an unanimous vote, with a few unimportant amendments. It was moved by Mr. Furber that the business of the Society be thrown open to all members of the University for the remainder of the college year. An amendment that goods be sold to non-members at a slight advance on the regular price was lost. The original...