Word: questions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think it was generally understood that the tennis courts were not held over during the vacation, but were reclaimed every fall, so that until they were reclaimed the ground was practically vacant. As of late years it has been a vexed question as to who is the proper authority to whom should be referred points relating to the distribution of the grounds, the Lacrosse Association applied to the President, whom they recognized as having sufficient authority in the matter. Arrangements were also made with the Cricket Club, so that the Lacrosse practice would not interfere with the practice...
AGAIN comes up the question of the Freshman theatre party; and, with the Advocate, we are heartily opposed to the recurrence of that senseless folly. When first they became the custom, these theatre parties were merely a manifestation of the exhuberant delight of a lot of schoolboys at breaking away from the apron-strings. But nowadays Freshman classes are composed of men so much older and more mature in every way, that they would scorn such an explanation of their acts. They keep up the custom, not because they actually get much enjoyment from its observance - for we believe that...
...allowed to, we find that the facts are as follows : One man in the Honor examinations obtained an average of marks five per cent higher than any one else; he certainly deserved Highest Honors. Now whether others deserved them too, or not, depends upon the answer to one question, and that is this : Have the Faculty a certain fixed per cent, the attainment of which, under any and all circumstances, gives Highest Honors; or is the per cent of the best man taken as the maximum, and all other per cents required to be within a certain number of marks...
Listen, thou son of Menoeceus, and carry this question to Cambridge...
...disappearance of his room-mate - which no one has ever yet accounted for, except to suppose that the poor fellow met an accidental death on the night in question - worked upon him in such a manner that the very sad result ensued. I see by reading his account of the matter that, with the wonderful precision and clearness which insanity sometimes attains, he has given a very clear account of all that happened up to the time of that terrible outbreak on Red Hill. There he burst forth a raving madman. What might have happened had not two other pedestrians...