Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Freshman Debating Club of the class of '98 had a membership which was double that of the older clubs. Obviously not all of these debaters can make the Union or the Wendell Phillips Club, even if their ability warrants their election...
...have before this given our reasons for believing that in college dailies athletic news is bound to occupy more space than can any report of the intellectual work done in the college. With the public press this is even more true. The account of an athletic contest may easily be given a sensational tone which matches the popular taste; but the doings of the student are too quiet and unexciting to hold the interest of the reading public. Let him enter upon the field of competition, so that college may be pitted against college in scholarly contest, and the resulting...
Debating is a case in point. Until intercollegiate debates were begun, the press found nothing of much comment in the forensic efforts of undergraduates, though those in their initial stages were even more significant than they are in the present development of the art of debate. Given, however, the exaggerated interest of intercollegiate competition, and each debate receives almost the attention of a football game...
...instance of the general quickening of intellectual life in the college, and accordingly deny to the college due credit for the real vigor of this life. That it is vigorous they have no evidence through the daily press; they do not, therefore, check at the injustice of assuming, and even asserting, that...
Saturday was a day of victories for Harvard, a day full of promise for the rest of the season. Even the defeat of the lacrosse team was far from discouraging (it is no sign of weakness to fall but a single point behind the intercollegiate champion of last year); and in lacrosse alone was Harvard beaten. The University, junior and freshman nines, and the University cricket, fencing, and whist teams were all successful. So too, though not in competition with another college, was the track athletic team. We congratulate them all on their excellent work, and are confident that...