Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opportunities for training and whose effort at the contest is the result of two or three weeks of work. The average Boylston Prize declamation is little more than an exhibition of memory. Debating has the advantage of being within the powers of the average student; and even poor debating is valuable, as poor declamation is not, because it is a direct training for the work of active life...
After long discussion and consultation with various professors, the Committee on Intercollegiate Debates has finally chosen the following question for the Yale debate: "Resolved, That the United States should adopt definitely the single gold standard and should decline to enter a bimetallic league, even if Great Britain, France and Germany should be willing to enter such a league." This question has been telegraphed to Yale with the request that her choice of sides be sent back within two weeks...
...even if our visitors are impolite and insult us by standing with hats on in our private dining hall, we have no excuse for repaying them in kind. We should not top their impoliteness with actions more insulting than their...
...says: "It must be perceived and admitted that training which goes beyond pleasurable exercise is worse than useless, and that so-called sports which require a dull and dreaded routine of hardships and suffering in preparation for a few exciting crises, are not worth what they cost. They pervert even courage and self-sacrifice, because these high qualities are exercised for no adequate end." With the last sentence perhaps many of us will disagree; and no doubt with the present sharp intercollegiate rivalry and the strong desire to win, many would dislike to see the suggestions in the Report carried...
...from the very start. Then when the crowed had once got around the Tree, there would be a block instead of a lively scrimmage. The dozen men immediately encircling the Tree would be almost the only ones to get flowers. They would probably tear away all they could. Or, even if prompted by more generous motives, they would be unable to get out through the impenetrable mass of men behind them. Each man in the crowed would be so tightly wedged in between four men, before, behind, right and left, that however willing he should...