Word: questions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...make or mar you here. No education, no counsel - even of the sagest - can help you. You must stand or fall on your own merits. The next grand division of the subject, where care and study are not only useful but even absolutely necessary, is closely connected with the question just discussed, but differs from it in one very important point. Then it was a question of selecting, from what was outside, the best. Now the problem is to eradicate, from what is within, the worst. The results tend in the same direction; the processes are distinct. Any little peculiarities...
THOSE who are interested in the question of subsidizing American ships will do well to attend the debate in English 6 next Thursday...
...question of compulsory education was debated at the Harvard Union last night, and proved very interesting. Messrs. Eaton, '82, and Wait, '82, spoke on the affirmative, and Messrs. Davis, '81, and Moffat, '83, on the negative...
...late the question has been agitated as to the rights of tennis players on Jarvis and Holmes Fields. So long as there was plenty of ground vacant where new courts might be placed, there was no occasion for much dispute; but now almost every available spot seems to have been taken, and the question becomes one of no little importance, and one which, if not soon settled, is liable to lead to much rancor and ill-feeling...
...society, and especially of one in a new field, and one, too, which requires a large, active membership to become even a passable success, must always be attended with difficulties. These seem to have been happily overcome in the formation of the Harvard Legislature, the only question being whether the demand for such a body equals the supply, and whether the interest thus far manifested will hold out. A final judgment of this society cannot, of course, be given until a few regular meetings and debates have taken place; but there can be no doubt that a vigorous, well-conducted...