Word: question
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...straw ballot held in September, 83 per cent, of those voting favored the ratification of some form of the League of Nations Covenant. During the five remaining days before the assembling of the new Congress, the Administration and the Senators are trying to ascertain public opinion on this vital question, and the above strong majority has now a chance to make itself felt. Every man in the University will have an opportunity to sign a petition to be sent to President Wilson, Senator Lodge and Senator Hitchcock, urging the reopening of debate, and the ratification of a compromise, which other...
...Suppression of any sort is a consequent loss of originality. Even though the obnoxious idea in question is momentarily crushed, and the man who advanced it is discharged, there is a doubly evil effect--the question is brought into greater prominence than before, and others professors find themselves afraid to step at all beyond the limits of complete conventionality. For fear of suppression they dare not carry on their work nor their investigations...
These trials have been divided into two sections with two teams in each section, one debating in the afternoon and the other in the evening. Twelve minutes will be devoted to constructive speaking and five to rebuttals for each speaker. The question under discussion is the same as for the last debate: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt the Plumb Plan for the operation of the railroads...
...Half of our teachers have no training whatever for their work, and half of them have no education beyond the high school. Half of them again do not stay more than five years in the work, and half of them are not over 25 years of age. Yet without question the teacher is the most important factor in education. Nothing else can count so much. No money the country can spend and no perfection of school organization or administration can compensate for the lack of trained teachers...
First trials for the Debating Team will be held tonight at 7.30 o'clock in Harvard 6. The question to be discussed is as follows: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt the Plumb Plan for the operation of the railroads." Each speaker will be given five minutes in which to defend which ever side of the question he chooses. Half of the men who speak tonight will be retained for the second trial next Friday at the same time and place...