Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...judges for the Harvard Yale Freshman Debate, which is to take place May 15 in the Fogg Art Museum, have been chosen and are Professor J. W. Churchill of Andover, and Mr. H. A. Clapp of Boston. The third judge has not as yet been chosen, but will probably be a Yale man. Professor Baker will preside...
...trial debate to choose the speakers who will represent Yale in the Harvard-Yale debate, Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., of New York, Rogers Baldwin, of New York, and Walter H. Clark, of Hartford, were chosen. A. P. Stokes, Jr., also won the Thacher prize of $75 offered for the best speech in debate by a member of the academic department at Yale...
...have a definite bent, but to devote themselves to one thing they must conform to the bars of circumstance. They must work with the tools and staff at hand. But hindrances annoy them, and at times God appears to mock. Yet, though the human will cannot arrive at its chosen point, the discipline of character will permit another goal. For a strenous nature such schooling is hard; but character is the only thing which man can win, hold and take away with...
...Friday, May 8, there will be a special competition for membership open only to freshmen. The subject will be the same as that chosen for the Yale Harvard freshman debate, "Resolved, That there should be a large and immediate increase in the navy of the United States." All freshmen, and especially members of the Freshman Debating Society are urged to compete...
There were no class officers except the captains of the baseball team and the crew, who were chosen at chapel the first of each year. The athletic spirit during the early seventies was dormant. Judge Grant was one of the first to revive the game of football. The rules were radically different from those of today. A player could run only when chased, and must stop as soon as pursued. In the first game with Yale at New Haven in 1875, Harvard was victorious, preventing Yale from scoring...