Word: acte
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brooks of Harvard, Walter Camp of Yale, Alexander Moffatt of Princeton, John C. Bell of Pennsylvania, and Paul Dashiel of Lehigh. The committee will act only with regard to the playing rules of the game and will not attempt to make any rules relating to membership on teams. Its first meeting will occur at the University Athletic Club of New York on February...
...indebted to Congreve and Moliere. Boucicault, like other English dramatists, makes little appeal to life. He neither helps people to be better, nor keeps them from being worse. Lady Gay Spanker, in "London Assurance," is one of the most attractive stage characters. She does not appear till the third act...
...whole situation is simply this: Harvard has two debating societies and these will always act together when Harvard has debating contests with other universities, but these two societies are entirely independent and quite free to carry out, on their own responsibility, whatever plans they please, provided that these plans meet with no objection from the Faculty. If the Wendell Phillips Club originates and realizes some valuable idea, we shall not ask for a share in the credit for it. We ask the treatment from them. We desire that same the relations between the two societies should always be those...
...Alfred Samuel Hayes. He questioned the adequacy of Mr. Clark's definitions. Party allegiance, said he, was simply the fidelity which a man gives to an organization composed of men who hold like opinion with him. It is perfectly true that men who still continue firm partisans, may occasionally act against the temporary leaders of their party, but it is after all for the sake of the party...
...debate, a five minute speech was allowed to one man on each side. Mr. Peddie spoke for Yale. He said that, eloquence to one side, the whole question resolved itself into one of motive and did not touch the necessity of party existence. Harvard claimed that men should act because led by party feeling. Yale claimed that men should act because led by reason and conscience...