Word: abandonment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Preparation for the Harvard-Brown-Wesleyan triangular debate began last night with the retention of eight men following the first trials in which five minute speeches were presented on either side of the question: "Resolved, That all nations abandon their extra-territorial right in China...
...that date the University will debate Brown at Providence, and Wesleyan here, on the question "Resolved, That all nations abandon their extraterritorial rights in China." The audience will have one vote and there will be two judges, instead of three, as formerly, so that ties will be impossible this year...
...There is a dash and abandon among the youth of our land that is inspiring and terrible to contemplate...
...three days the reservation Indians debated in powwow. Then they voted to abandon Christianity, to revive the cult of the Great Spirit...
Dean West's great achievement at Princeton was his founding the graduate school there in 1901. AS he wrote to Princeton trustees: "It was the policy of the university from the start to abandon the idea of a great number of graduate students and to plan the entire work on the basis of quality rather than quantity. ... A company of picked graduate students of moderate number and high scholarly promise was what was necessary in order that Princeton should make a really distinguished contribution to the higher teaching and scholarship of our country...