Word: questions
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...team from the Sophomore Debating Club was defeated by Exeter Academy at Exeter last night. The question was the same as that of the Princeton debate. The Harvard speakers, who were superior to their opponents in form, based their argument on England's moral right to intervene in the Transvaal because of her superior fitness to meet the peculiar conditions of South African government. For Exeter, R. R. Alexander, L. Grilk, and J. F. Dore maintained that England's intervention is not justifiable because she is prohibited from intervening by both convention and precedent. The rebuttal did not materially affect...
...Sophomore debating team will debate with Exeter Academy at Exeter this evening. This Sophomore team consists of J. M. Gates, P. E. Fitzpatrick, W. H. Lough and E. H. Letchworth, alternate. The question is the same as in the Harvard-Princeton debate. The Sophomores have the affirmative, and Exeter the negative, and ten minutes will be allowed for opening speeches and five for rebuttals. The following men have been secured for judges: President Murkland of the Durham (N. H.) Agricultural School; W. H. Chadwick of Exeter, and I. L. Winter of Harvard...
...system even in the lower schools. Almost every party was willing to vote for this, upon one condition--that it, the party, might put its own valuation on each study and have its own way as to how much value should be required for admission." So that the whole question of electives in admission requirements shook itself down to the practical one of "'points,' and combinations of 'points'," which finally produced the system about to go into force. Professor Emerson then discusses most interestingly, in the real body of the article, the ancient and modern language question, the possibility...
...debate of the Junior Wranglers last night on the question: "Resolved, That B. H. Roberts should be allowed to hold a seat in Congress, was won by the negative, supported by Heilborn's camp...
Next Thursday there will be a debate with the William E. Russell club of Boston University, on the question chosen for the Harvard-Princeton debate. The Wranglers will support the affirmative. The meeting will take place in Isaac Rich Hall, Ashburton place, Boston, at eight o'clock...