Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exact wording of the subject for the Freshman Triangular debate with Yale and Princeton to be held April 15, has just been announced. It is as follows: "Resolved: That it is for the Best Interests of the Irish People That They Should Be Granted Dominion Home Rule." The Freshmen will uphold the affirmative side of the question against Princeton at Cambridge, while the negative will debate at Yale. Nine Freshmen have been retained after the preliminary trials and are being coached by the members of the University team...
...dance and Saturday night you would be called upon to support the debating team. You might throw up the sponge and try again next week, but next week would probably prove just as bad. In the end, your study of the subject would be irregular and much distracted; the exact opposite of concentration...
...decision as to the exact wording of the subject proposed rests with the Yale team and has not yet been communicated to the University debaters...
From the preliminary trials six candidates will be chosen to deliver a ten-minute speech at the finals, which will take place after the Spring Recess, the exact date to be announced later...
...took a picture of the 100-yard dash finish in the Intercollegiate which, taken at the exact moment, showed that the decision of the judges to be almost entirely wrong. They had rated Smith of Michigan first, Moore of Princeton second, and E.A. Teschner '17' of Harvard third. When developed the picture showed Moore breaking the tape with his chest, Teschner crossing the finish line with one foot, and Smith still in the air but not across the line...