Word: affaire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...text-books about them, quickened into real significance for us. Interest in the play will by no means be confined to classical scholars. A very large proportion of the students will feel themselves indebted to the men who have unreservedly spent their time and labor to make the affair successful...
...Yale football teams, together with many alumni of both universities, were entertained by several Yale graduates, Saturday night, in New York. The dinner was given as a compliment to Mr. Henry L. Higginson, who entertained the Harvard and Yale teams last year. It proved to be such an enjoyable affair that an effort will be made to establish the custom of holding annual dinners...
...with the greatest gratification that we congratulate the representatives of Harvard in the joint debate with Yale on their victory. The debate was an affair which reflected credit on all who had connection with it. The management was excellent throughout, and much praise is due to the committee who have worked so persistently and intelligently to make all arrangements. A large gathering of cultured people, a distinguished presiding officer, and aneminently able board of judges made a setting for the debate which could hardly have been improved...
...hoped to have a very small banquet to the Yale speakers, the officers of the two debating societies, and others prominent in speaking at Harvard. The most encouraging feature of the debate is that members of the University are coming to regard the debate as an important intercollegiate affair...
...character of the men chosen is a high tribute to the cause of intercollegiate contests of this type. The speakers on both sides are working very hard and the debate promises to be exceedingly close and exciting. The students ought to take as much interest in this affair and to feel as much pride in it as they do in athletics, for slowly but surely just recognition is being given to matches of brain against brain, and these debates are becoming important occasions in college life...