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...Dartmouth, Swarthmore, Columbia, Harvard, Yale and some Canadian institutions. In their first engagement, the Oxford men (affirmative) emerged the losers by a vote of the audience, 1,135-178. The verdict apparently was rendered on the merits of the question and not of the presentation. Said the New fork Tribune, editorially: "The Oxford men had too tough an assignment. The result probably would have been no different had their team included Lloyd George, John Maynard Keynes and the editor of The Manchester Guardian. No disputants could prove to a lot of hard-headed Yankees that France was in the wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Debates | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

Fully as great in importance as his procuring the dish is his method of eating it. He takes fork with l., (l means left hand; r., right.) Changes same to r., tries to eat griddlecake with same, returns fork to l., whence to table and exhales. Picks up fork with l, and knife (by handle) with r., gets firm hold on both and approaches griddle cake. Griddle-cake slipping well on the mixture of caviar and heavy alights in neighbor's lap. (Now here is where his training is evident.) With a jovial laugh, Willie bursts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TO THE MANOR BORN" | 10/28/1922 | See Source »

Does he at dinner parties snatch his fork from his plate as the waitress removes it, thus assuring himself of a complete equipment when his desert is served? If so there is no more room for doubt. There is your Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YE' SHALL KNOW THEM | 11/9/1921 | See Source »

...Professor Fisher made a second expedition, this time to the head waters of the south fork of the Trinity River, in northern California. On this trip, the only guide the foresters had was a township map which they had brought from headquarters in San Francisco, and which was subsequently found to be totally inaccurate and unreliable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIELD WORK IN FORESTRY | 3/9/1912 | See Source »

...before 8 o'clock Tuesday evening to try the running gear in preparation for the advertised trial flights on the following morning, and at the end of a run it coasted, before it could be stopped, into a sand heap at the side of the field. A slightly bent fork, connecting a front wheel and skid, and a couple of broken guy wires, are the extent of the damage done. The "wrecked" machine may be inspected at any time in its tent on Soldiers Field. The run was open to members, as were the very successful runs on Tuesday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 6/16/1910 | See Source »

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