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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...selected teams will meet in a regular debate which will end the trials on December 2. The judges will choose from the men that show up best in this debate the nine speakers who will be on the team representing the University in the debate against Dartmouth on January 16. It is planned to exchange teams with Dartmouth and to have the debate in Hanover going on at the same time as the one in Cambridge...
...Rhodes Scholar I wish to protest gently against some of the suggestions of the editorial entitled "Rhodes Scholars Old and New." That "hitherto American Rhodes Scholars were not a great success at Oxford" and that the "Yankee" at Oxford has not been truly representative of the best that America can produce, are two assumptions which I doubt if you are entitled to make, however little I may be in a position gracefully to repute them. If you are under the impression that recent writings in the Atlantic Monthly give you authority, a less cursory reading of those articles will answer...
...believed that there was a growing purpose and sense in the world of justice for all mankind, but it was not the justice depicted in the Bible as exhibited by the Hebrew God, it was not the best justice of mankind today towards fellow-men, towards women and children. He looked for the coming of a wiser justice and a justice tempered with mercy and tenderness. And that was at the root of Major Higginson's nature...
Militarism is not synonymous with conscription. The first is a poisonous state of mind more or less existent in all nations. The second is, of all political measures, the one best calculated to give that state of mind power and scope. I bow to the distinction...
...inter class debating tourney held Monday night between the Juniors and the Seniors the Seniors won an easy victory. In the second debate of the evening, the Sophomores had a more difficult task in defeating the Freshman team, although C. W. Phelps of the 1922 trio was the best individual speaker of the two debates...