Word: enigma
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Perhaps one of the most important questions confronting the University today, is, what is the best way to treat a Freshman class? The question has grown as steadily as have the entering classes, and has every year become more of an enigma...
...News editorial says: "It is not so much the forensic ability of the individual contestants which figures in these intercollegiate competitions as it is the debating training of the university which they represent." A strange enigma; for it is in "the forensic ability of the individual contestants" that the debating training which a university gives to its members is put to the test. This very fact is a potent reason for insisting that the forensic ability of the individual debaters shall count for all it is worth and not be deprived of its individuality by coaching...