Word: duels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago Harvard defeated the University of Pittsburgh, supporting the proposition: "Education is the Curse of the Age". In view of the fact that it is necessary to choose the team for the coming debate immediately, the Debating Council will select the men for the coming forensic duel today at the scheduled meeting, instead of holding the customary try-outs. The debaters will be chosen from among the more experienced members of the Debating Council. The midyear examinations prevented the Council from holding the regular try-outs. The Council regrets the necessity for eliminating the try-outs in selecting...
...duel at anagrams or ask-me-another the betting would be in favor of Swope, who takes a fierce joy in games of omniscience. But Renaud might confidently give Swope a half-column handicap in a contest of humor. He edited the college humorous magazine, Chapparal, in his undergraduate days and is reputed no small wit. During an absence of Don Marquis from the Evening Post, Ralph Renaud conducted his funny column and made it just as funny. The most famed Renaud epigram: "It's not the heat, it's ihe stupidity...
Americans may be inclined to smile at the ways of polities in Mexico, where public opinion shifts with every duel. But here in politically-wise New England Massachusetts has supplied the nation with a Republican President; nevertheless in his party's year of triumph she votes for Al Smith and reelects Senator Walsh by a huge majority. She has close fights for the governorship, but in the legislature one party has an overwhelming majority. Today there is more of a fight between the Republican Mayor and the Republican Governor than between the two opposing parties in the election. Who will...
...would like to make one of these trips may try out for the University of Pittsburgh debate, which is the next forensic duel to be held In Cambridge, on February 9. There will be a series of tryouts beginning about two weeks before this time. These tryouts present an excellent opportunity for any one who is interested in making the teams to demonstrate his ability and to gain experience at the same time...
Blue Howell, 185 pounds, one of the lightest men on the Nebraska team, was supposed to have been going to a duel with "Red" Cagle, the Army's unkind star. As it turned out, neither he nor Fay Russell, the 205 pound quarterback, who has a wife and ranch of his own, damaged the Army. Nor was Clair Sloan, who has not missed a kick for point after touchdown since the season began, able by himself to win, though he kicked a field goal in the second period and nearly kicked another to tie the score in the third...