Word: questions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...societies, and very few find it possible to attend all the meetings, to which as members they should go. If all the societies of learning can be induced to have meetings but once a month, the cry of too many societies will die out; the papers read and the questions discussed can be done much better; the attendance will undoubtedly be larger, and the whole will have more backbone and spirit. It can hardly be denied that they all need, or, at least, could stand, a great deal of improvement, and this we think could be done by adopting what...
...83.THE meeting of the Harvard Union of last night took place in Sever Hall. In spite of the cold weather and the meetings of several other societies on the same evening, the meeting was one of the most successful the Union has had. The question was: "Resolved, That co-education is desirable at Harvard." The regular disputants were, on the affirmative, Messrs. Firman and Mclnnes; and on the negative, Messrs. Thayer and Fuller. About a dozen members spoke from the House. Though the ballot on the merits of the question was two to one against co-education, the vote...
Till they called for the previous question...
...ever been. The subject is a very old one, but the annoyance is so great that the only way to correct it eventually, seems to be to speak of it periodically. Examinations can never be a very perfect test of what a man knows; hence, a few questions answered well are, in the majority of cases, a much better test than a number answered hurriedly. It is an impossibility, for instance, to do justice to fifteen questions, "and write as fully as you can in answer to each question," as was required in an examination this week...
...irrevocably lost; but it is not too late with diligence and care to accomplish much. Correctness, morever, is essential; and there is great demand for tact and patience. Any attempts at alteration will render a ballad utterly worthless for all critical purposes : the literary merit is not a question at issue. Note, too, that the burden or refrain should always be retained. To conclude, the enterprise calls for painstaking inquiry on the part of those who have at heart the interests of our folk-lore, and it is to be hoped that many persons will be found to prosecute...