Word: question
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...order to put the question of plank walks in the Yard to a test, we have to-day placed a subscription-book at Sever's. It will remain there for two weeks, unless a sufficient amount is subscribed before that time. All who have had reason to complain of the shameful condition of the walks so far - and who has not? - are urged to subscribe at once, and in order to save the trouble and delay of collecting subscriptions, to pay when they put down their names. The money will be returned in case the subscription fails. It is useless...
...humorist - could sarcasm go further? But she doesn't know as much as she ought to, for she asked me one day whether the college course fitted me for the ministry. And little Hope came running to meet me the other day with the strange question, "Is n't Harvard the best college in the world, Mr. Tournville?" I suppose they had been quarrelling a little, for tear-drops glistened on Charity's long lashes. They're queer girls! I don't see why they should get excited on the education question. I 'm surprised, too, that they speak...
Concerning the effect of the system upon the instructor, there can be no question. Dr. A. Potter, in his able book on Reading, says: "It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read." Not better than the books they read? Great Heavens! Do you not tremble for our instructors? Are they to descend at last to the level of the blue book? Are they to be no better than that "wretched heap and hotch-potch of words and ideas"? Alas! what a horrible destiny! But ought they not to be rescued? Ought...
About the purposes of the Examination System, and about its success or failure in fulfilling these purposes, I have heard much argument; but concerning its effects upon instructors and students, I have heard little or nothing. Is it not at least an open question whether the good done the student's style by writing half a dozen themes and a few forensics is not more than out-weighed by the harm done in scribbling twenty blue books a year? For my part, I strongly suspect that to write the blue books of a college course would have ruined the style...
...from the question-man of '83). In the Rig Veda. At least, I don't see why it shouldn't be there. I'll question Professor X. on the subject in the next recitation in chemistry...