Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...have considered the only argument in favor of shortening the race, but there are many reasons why four miles is the more desirable distance. I have learned from those who were active in rowing when the change from sixes to eights was made (in 1876) that four miles was not adopted principally because that is the distance rowed by Oxford and Cambridge (their race is about four miles and three-eights), but because it was thought that a three mile race, which had been the distance for sixes, was altogether too short a distance for eights. It was believed then...
...eight years ago there was another argument used in favor of shortening the race;--that the 'Varsity race was always settled long before the three-mile mark was reached. In the last two years this argument has been demolished, but in such a way that, as Mr. Storrow says, this is a very unfortunate time for Harvard to suggest that the race be shortened. HUGH BANCROFT...
...divide the remaining members into two camps which oppose each other in weekly or fortnightly debates during the year. It is the duty of the captains to choose questions for debate, to procure judges-who are usually members of the University Debating Club - and to open and close the argument for their side. It is usual; too, for each camp to elect a vice captain to act in the event of the captain's absence. It is also the captain's duty, at some time before the debate, to assign points for their men to look up and present...
...Recognition of this facts means broad-mindedness and fairness in discussion. Just here is where intercollegiate debating may prove something of a nuisance. It exists for the purpose of winning something, and therefore the undergraduate--not the coaches--wonders whether he may not contrive "trick plays" in his argument, whether he, too, cannot snap the ball back with double passes, and in his course work he comes to you with a brief in which he has tried carefully to conceal the large part of his case. When you object that the plan is, as a brief, inadequate, that...
...question was "Resolved, That the United States should adopt a system of shipping subsidies." The affirmative side was supported by the Sophomore team--G. Bettman, E. F. Mann and H. A. Rich. J. Daniels, R. J. Henshaw and A. A. Ballantine were the Freshman speakers. In point of argument and finished presentation the debate was above the usual interclass contest...