Word: effort
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...News further says: "Active assistance from members of the Faculty is here at Yale undoubtedly most valuable training to the debaters. In telligent criticism and pertinent suggestion from faculty coachers are of as much instructive force as safe-guards against misdirected effort in debating as they are in any other field of educational effort. If they are entirely dispensed with the most important side of these intercollegiate contests, the educational side, is seriously impaired." True, Faculty assistance is necessary to the proper training of debaters and is valuable to them in an educational way. The faculty should give its students...
...Generalship in argument and rebuttal" is indeed a strong factor in deciding a debate; but under the plea that the unaided planning of the generalship in the argument might be misdirected effort, faculty coaches might well arrange the tactics of the debate. The rebuttal speeches are still, fortunately, dependent wholly on the forensic ability of the speakers and are the one thing that saves the debates from being cut-and-dried affairs in which "educational" coaching has rendered the individual ability of the debaters of little account...
...whole university is now interested in the coming debate with Harvard. The men who have been chosen to represent Princeton in this contest are hard at work and are putting forward every effort in the hope that they will be able to defeat Harvard, whom they realize as no mean adversary. The inter-hall committee on debate has decided to hold a supper at the Princeton Inn immediately after the debate, at which the debaters from both Harvard and Princeton will be present...
Particular stress was laid by the speaker on the importance of the club to the church. A firm and closely related organization was needed, the speaker said, to place the tenets of the Catholic religion properly before the student body. After this appeal for consistent effort a short sketch of the work accomplished during the last quarter century in the religious life of the country was given and the address closed with an outline of what might be hoped for during the coming years...
Plans for the baseball team are already being considered, and an effort will be made to have the baseball team quartered in the regular training house during the coming season. Heretofore there has not been room at the training house for the nine, but this year new arrangements are to be made...