Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they are lacking in some or all the requisites to speech-making, of a good voice, good enunciation, and a good presence. Yet, if these men are to become anything but mere office-lawyers they must acquire these things, and acquire them by the hardest sort of work. The question is pertinent why are not such men permitted, if they desire, to acquire the use of the tools of their trade in their college years, when acquisition would be so much easier ? So far as it goes, the instruction offered in elocution is excellent. The one regular course embraces...
...trust the students will treat the question as one worthy of serious consideration, and so far as is possible make it of political significance. Certainly the present campaign is one which should interest all young men, whether they are voters or not and it is to be hoped that the students by making a change this year and marching in the Cleveland and Hendricks procession (which is not to be Democratic, but made up of Democrats and independent Republicans alike) will do their best to strike a blow at official corruption and show disapprobation of the present course...
Williams is agitating the question of applying for admission to the College base ball league...
...Princeton Review for September, President Porter in a paper entitled "Greek, and a Liberal Education" reviews the opinions of President Eliot as expressed in The Century of last June and calls in question the outcome of the present liberal tendency in education. The paper is written in particularly interesting in that it contains the essence of Yale teaching as contrasted with that of her rival. It would be invidious to compare the increase in the entrance class at Harvard with the decrease in the same class at Yale, but it would seem upon investigation that President Eliot's theory appears...
...leading motive of the Union in undertaking a canvass was to place on record the standing of the students on this great political question of the day. A secondary motive was to ascertain which party torchlight procession, the majority of the students favored...