Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trial debate held last night to choose the representatives of the Sophomore Debating Club who will speak against the Freshmen was, on the whole, a decidedly creditable performance. The speakers displayed a considerable knowledge of their subject matter, and a very fair amount of ability in handling the material. The competition offers conclusive proof that 1900 is capable at all events of doing effective work in debating without calling upon those of its speakers who are members of the Union or the Forum...
...quote below an extract from an editorial in the Yale News on the subject of the debate, which will perhaps correct some false impressions produced by the Associated Press account, and is at all events an exceedingly courteous and fair minded criticism of the Harvard speakers...
...Last night's debate was a fair contest, and resulted in a fair but close victory for Yale. Taken simply as a debate, it was the best ever held in the Yale-Harvard series. It was direct all the way through, it never hung on the wording of the question, and it was not marred by any slip of either side. Another characteristic was the intense interest aroused by every speaker and maintained throughout the debate by the exact knowledge of the subject shown on both teams, the perfect form of presentation of Harvard, and the convincing earnestness of Yale...
...first and only dress reheasal of the French Department play, "Athalie," went off last night with a fair amount of smoothness, in spite of a few stumbles...
...unfair not to allow a man to compete for two such offices as marshal and chorister, the editor evidently overlooked the fact that in the actual working of the old system, this same fault exists. Did a man defeated for one office, under the old system have a fair chance to succeed as a candidate for any other place? A simple exposition of the working of the old caucus system,- the system that will be in operation if the reform is not adopted,- answers this question, and affords the best argument in favor of the new plan...