Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lesson will make no visible impression on the mind, and after a year or two will fade completely away, never to be recalled. Yet where are we to get instructiors of the type recommended by Professor Tyndall? This is indeed a gordian knot in the shape of a question, and we must confess has not been cut with an answer. Much can be done by a hard working and earnest teacher to keep up the flagging interest of his class, but from the general indifference it is quite evident that there is a lack of system...
Before the debate was opened a vote was taken on the merits of the question, with the following result : Affirmative, 43, negative, 12. The vote on the strength of argument of the principal disputants stood, affirmative, 22, negative, 32. The following gentlemen spoke from the floor : Messrs. Whitman, L. s.,Noble,'85,Merriam,'86, Strong,'85, Hamilton,'87. After the debute had returned to the Principal disputands for summing up of rgument, a vote was on the merits of the debate as a whole. The affirmative received is votes and The negative 18. The following was selected as the subject...
There will be a meeting of the Harvard Union to night in Sever 11 at 7.30. The question for debate is "Resolved: That the elective system of Harvard meets the requirements of a higher education better than any other system. Debaters: Aff., A. Z. Bowen '85 and E. S. McFee, '88. Neg., C. T. Carrier, '85 and H. E, Fraser...
...first place the CRIMSON was in a much better position than our correspondent to judge of the game and its results, being represented on the practice field, and at the particular match in question and aided by data concerning the games of freshmen in the past. We wrote not from any spirit of jealousy, for all the upper classes wish well to the freshmen and look upon their efforts with an interest which almost equals their own. Nor was it a spirit of useless criticism which prompted our editorial but a desire to point out in a clear and forcible...
...extent of popular ignorance of it is far greater than of at least the forms of these subjects. The department of Political Economy at Harvard has always been very fertile and progressive in suggesting and presenting courses for the study of the more important economic questions of the day, and we are aware that the subject we mention comes to some extent within the scope of one or more of the courses already given by this department; still in some of its more important phases, such as that concerned with the monopoly agitation, and railroad legislation, as well perhaps...