Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This practice of Faculty coaching, Harvard believes, leads to a perversion of the purpose of the debates. With unlimited Faculty assistance the student speakers become mere mouthpieces through which the Faculty is heard and the debate developes into a contest between the Faculties of the two universities, not between the students. It is as if in an intercollegiate chess match each member of the two teams should have behind his chair an expert chess player to plan his moves for him; and he himself should do nothing but move the pieces from one square to another...
...main contests of the year will be the Intercollegiate Championship and the Junior Team Championship. The former will be held as usual at the Racquet Club in New York. This contest usually takes place early in May, but an effort will be made to arrange it earlier this year. The contesting teams will come as last year, from Harvard, Columbia and Annapolis. The trophy, a handsome bronze statuette of a fencer, has been held by Harvard three years, since the first contest took place...
...question discussed at the trial was the same as will be debated in the final contest, namely: "Resolved, That assuming the adoption of adequate Constitutional amendments, the United States should institute a system of responsible Cabinet Government...
...extend our congratulations to the men chosen to represent the University in the coming debate with Princeton. We feel sure that they will realize fully the responsibility laid upon them and the opportunity offered them. They are to represent Harvard in a contest with another great university in which they must strive to regain the prestige lost by the defeat sustained at the hands of Yale. The defeat which we thus suffered will not materially affect us if we retrieve ourselves by a victory in the coming contest. But should we lose the Princeton debate untold injury would result. Only...
...more important of the two. But it is not. If either of the debates is more important than the other, it is that with Princeton. The more convenient time at which the preparation for the Yale debate will come and the fact that it is the only dual contest Harvard has with Yale will assure large and successful trials. Everything will be done to win it. But if we lose the Princeton debate we shall have had two defeats in succession, one by each of our rivals; and the combination will strike a very hard blow at our reputation...