Word: questions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...parted, napped, descended, and met again; but, fortunately for you, reader, not one man had a dream (I cannot lie, for one). We lunched on marron mashe and green fruit, served, expressly for the occasion, from the Brunswick. While lunching, the great question of debate was whether we should keep on walking to Malden or return to Chelsea. Some thought Malden, some Chelsea, nearer. I was sent as a committee of one to find out which was right...
ENGLISH 6. November 4, at 2 P. M., in Sever 5. Debate on the following question : Resolved, That the continued existence of the Republican party is unfavorable to the establishment of order and civil freedom in the Southern States. Affirmative, Messrs. Adams, Godkin, and Dazey; Negative, Messrs. Coolidge, DeWindt, and Jackson...
...question of sending the Yale University Crew to England this summer is under discussion among the graduates of Yale, who seem very favorably disposed to the idea. We offer Yale our warm support in the matter, and hope they can be as successful in England next summer, as they were at New London this summer. Their crew is an extremely fine one, and it seems hard that, when Harvard or Yale has such a crew, it should not be sent abroad to show Oxford and Cambridge what we are doing in America. We have only one word of caution...
...show that there is much interest taken in the organization, and that there are a number of men in College who take lively interest in political matters. In the debates there is one danger that needs to be avoided, if possible : that is, the tendency to stray from the question under discussion to mere refutations of perhaps very insignificant points. It might be advisable, in order to keep the subject constantly in mind, to have it written plainly on the blackboard behind the chairman's desk. The subject for the next debate is one of much interest and importance...
...question - well, not answer...