Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...volume now published the compilers have presented: First, a group of songs peculiar to the University of Pennsylvania; second, selections suited for use by college glee clubs in general; third, several part songs for male voices of a more serious character...
Harvard holds that the aid given to debaters by Faculty members should be limited to the suggestion of references to material and to the giving of information and assistance of the most general kind. From the references and material thus given them, in addition to that of their own collecting, the debaters are then to work out their own lines of argument and plans of presentation...
...Yale, however, the practice of giving Faculty assistance to the debaters is carried to its extreme. Their Faculty members may not only furnish references to works on the subject chosen and give material and information, but may criticize the speeches of the debaters, change and amend their arguments and general plan of debate, and even select a team of Faculty members to actually debate with the student team, and lecture to them on the subject chosen for debate. Yale graduates, not connected with the university, who have become authorities on the question for discussion, may also come to New Haven...
...greatest disappointment is felt over the decided defeat of the eleven by Princeton on Saturday. While there is the deepest regret, that the best efforts of Yale's representatives were not sufficient to bring her victory, there is at the same time a most general feeling, among graduates and undergraduates alike, that the game was won by the all around superiority of Yale's opponents. Princeton is to be congratulated for the magnificent team she placed in the field this year...
Voted, That in the opinion of the Advisory Board the assistance of instructors in Harvard University in competitive debates, except in the case of the instructor in elocution, should be limited to pointing out material, giving information, and suggesting the general analysis of the subject. They should not arrange lines of argument, criticise the speeches of members of the teams, or debate against them...