Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Question: "Resolved, That the removal of duties on raw wool would benefit the woolen manufacturers of the United States...
...weakened by regular and systematic physical exercise which will tend to turn aside the superabundant physical vigor of youth from worse channels. There are two forms of physical exercise which are foremost in importance-gymnasium and out of door sports. Under this latter head Mr. Adams takes up the question of football which he declares to be the best game there is. In this connection also he touches lightly the position and importance which intercollegiate games should have...
...failure to accept Cornell's challenge does not confess or acknowledge the superiority of Cornell's crew, and has nothing to do with that question. For their action in this matter Harvard and Yale have reasons which seem to them sufficient, and neither their acceptance nor their refusal to accept the challenge would or could have any bearing on the ability of Cornell's oarsmen. If Swarthmore college, which never rowed a race, should challenge Yale and be refused, would that refusal be a written confession of the superiority of the Swarthmore eight...
...entirely free from annoying abuses, particularly in the reserve book department. Students in the various courses are often directed to the reserve shelves for books which they cannot find upon application, at the library, and this, although the reading room catalogue shows that the books in question are at least nominally on the reserve shelves. In the past this misplacement or misappropriation of books has been attributed to students. No doubt the fault does he largely at their door, not wholly, however, as recent events have shown. Instructors as well as students are sometimes the offenders. The right of instructors...
...article of most direct interest to college men in the February number of the Outing was written last November by Mr. R. M. Hodge, on the then vexed question of which college would win the football championship. Speaking of the condition of things in November Mr. Hodge says that Harvard football is characteristic of the Harvard spirit of indifference. Yale is always conservative. The extremis individualism of the college spirit at Princeton, is the most salient point of her eleven's play. Mr. Hodge shows some judgment in pointing out the merits and defects of each team, but ventures...