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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RESOLVED, that in the opinion of the Harvard Glee Club should participate in the annual Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest, and that we wish to go on record as urging the Harvard Glee Club to re-enter this contest next year and in the future. Harvard Club of Kansas City

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Resolved | 4/9/1926 | See Source »

...nine speakers who will enter the finals of the Lee Wade and Boylston Prize contest next Wednesday have been chosen by Professor C. T. Copeland and Mr. F. G. White of the English department. Their names are as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SET WEDNESDAY FOR FINALS IN ORATORY COMPETITIONS | 4/9/1926 | See Source »

Robert Lincoln O'Brien '91, editor of the Boston Herald, has been chosen as the third judge of the Harvard examinations in the New York Times, Current Events Prize Contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDITOR OF BOSTON HERALD TO BE THIRD JUDGE OF CONTEST | 4/3/1926 | See Source »

...preliminaries of the speaking contest in French for the medal offered by the Comile France-Amerique of Paris will take place at 7.30 o'clock on April 15 in Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Contest on April 15 | 4/2/1926 | See Source »

...debate is moving now from very rigid, severe standards of presentation toward a less formal delivery. The Harvard-Yale contest, whence the discussion proceeds, was an experiment pointed in that direction; and like any early experiment in the arts, it tended to bewilder, and its effect was equivocal. The judges, with their eyes open for logical consistency, voted one way, and the audience, delighted by a steady flow of capable wit, voted the other. The confusion arose, I believe, from the simple fact of distribution. What the new school of debating wishes to do is not to place humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Logical Humor | 4/2/1926 | See Source »

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