Word: question
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...This club believes that the income tax, endorsed by both national parties, is the leading issue of the present campaign, and that the people have a right to know how their representatives intend to vote on this important question. Believing this, the club has undertaken the work and the expense of making a canvass of all candidates for the legislature...
...Eliot closed by taking up the question of whether it is commendable to make these invaluable and scientific discoveries at the expense of the comfort or life of animals, which man uses in various ways to sustain himself. Dr. Eliot defended the tests on animals in these words...
Professor Bedier is widely known for his work on the fabliaux, and has given special attention to the question of the formation of the old French epics. The lecture will be open to members of the University and Radcliffe College, and others interested in the subject...
...give six lectures, in French, on La Chanson de Roland, in the two weeks October 11-23. Professor Bedier, who is widely known, among other things, for his work on the fabliaux and his reconstitution of the story of Tristan et Yseut, has been giving special attention to the question of the formation of the Old French epics, and has published thus far two volumes on the Legendes Epiques. These lectures should interest students of mediaeval literature and of the relations between different classes of society, especially those between monks and minstrels. They are based on the author...
...entertaining, nevertheless. "Mediaeval Gastronomy" is cleverly versified, and illustrated con amore. Even the account of the bold dash of Dr. Crook to the North Pole (now at last definitely located at Perkins Hall) though based on a joke never very funny and surely as old as the hall in question is undeniably amusing. As usual, the drawings are better than the other matter. The centre-page by Steel '11, is not only witty, but really refreshingly thoughtful. In a humorous way it points a moral which, with modifications, may be safely commended to Freshmen. There is a good conception, likewise...