Word: whether
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Even in this hour of wide-spread disillusionment and reaction," said Professor Bliss Perry in his address before the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre yesterday noon, "I venture to select a few ideals for society which have been proclaimed by poetry. Let us ask ourselves whether these ideals still persist and whether the poets think that there is any measurable progress towards their attainment...
...changed, an accident might occur owing to the tendency of the onlookers in the train to lean too far out over the observation platform railing. At a conference held yesterday between the officials of the railroad and the Rowing Committees of the two universities, the proposed change was discussed. Whether the 150 feet in question will be cut off the end of the course without making up the distance or whether the start will be pushed back to make the course exactly the same distance as it was before will be decided tomorrow. The railroad officials have refused...
...impossible to set any certain date for the mustering out of the limited foreign service men, it is doubtful whether college students will be able to get back to their respective school before the opening of the next academic year...
Apart from all economic considerations the effects of national prohibition on the temper of the laboring classes will be most alarming. Whether it has been scientifically proven that hard work needs a stimulant or not makes no difference to the worker. He believes he needs that stimulant and resents bitterly interference with what he considers his personal liberty. Foreign agitators can seize this opportunity of pointing out that the government of the United States is as despotic as any in Europe and that the only means of salvation for working men is to do away with all government...
...subjects. At the close of his sophomore year he will be required to demonstrate by the range of his knowledge and ability that he is getting something worth while out of the college. And before he receives his degree he will have to undergo another general test to determine whether the college can afford to turn him out into the world as an educated...