Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Transcript's editorial reprinted in the CRIMSON of a day or two age presented an interesting speculation regarding the use of humor and of humorous questions in debating. Competitive speaking between colleges happens at present to find itself in a state of metamorphosis of which some aspects are necessarily unlovely and extreme; and it can profit definitely by examining the frank criticism of those who sit in debating audiences or who serve as its official judges...
...age when the Orthodox Paradox is a forgotten conversational convention and one must talk radio or stocks to be understood there is still Romance, though it be a little tawdry and shopworn from the treatment it gets at the hands of the Hot-Snappy-True Story magazines. And when the audience thought that the Circle was going on the conversational rocks Maugham rushed forward with a pink scarf labelled Romance...
...years, by the confession of its own devotees, quite dour and dismal. Should it become now a laughing-stock? Harvard, Yale and Princeton have undertaken to move it in this direction. The crucial topic set for their latest triangular wrangling--"Resolved, that education is the curse of the present age" and they chose with chuckles aforethought. They expressly intended to give light discussion wide play in the ensuing debate, and so to invite the attendance of a larger audience, tempted by an opportunity not only to think but to smile...
...Wanted: Teacher for rural school; woman preferred; salary $800 a year; high school graduation and professional training not necessary; low-grade certificate accepted; satisfactory board and room not guaranteed; applicant need not be more than 20 years of age and need not have taught more than one year in the same school...
...University debating team, defending the negative of the question "Resolved: That education is the curse of the present age," defeated Yale by the unanimous vote of the judges on Saturday night. The question was otherwise decided by the audience, who favored the Eli speakers by a 65 to 32 vote. This was the first of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debates; the next one in which the University participates will be at Princeton on April...