Word: hand
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...clock in the New Lecture Hall. Each speaker will be allowed five minutes to talk on other side of the question: "Resolved, That a commission be given power to fix railroad rates." From twelve to fifteen men will be retained for further trial. Everyone who intends to speak must hand in his name to Perkins 34 before 12 o'clock, so that the order of speaking, to be determined, by lot, may be posted in Gore Hall by 1 o'clock. The judges will be E. M. Rabenold 1L., and R. LuV. Lyman '03. J. C. Prizer '07 will preside...
...strength of the Princeton team lay in the consistency and flawlessness of its argument, due to the care with which it had prepared its speeches. The Harvard speeches, on the other hand, attempted a bolder attack, and seemed more mature in their delivery. The best speaking of the evening was done by R. B. Fosdick of Princeton. Of the Harvard debaters B. V. Kanaley spoke with great fluency and wit, and A. Tulin with commendable power. Princeton's essential argument emphasized the necessity of the development of the individual for his particular career, while Harvard claimed that a student...
...must be borne in mind that the negative is not called upon to defend any particular regime. It believes that every college should maintain that system which is best qualified to meet its special needs. The affirmative, on the other hand, must prove that the revolutionary system which it defends is better than any other available method of education for all American colleges...
...took no physics, 250 no mathematics, and 140 no philosophy. Another evil attendant upon this system is the election of "snap courses." Dean Briggs in 1900 declared that nearly 30 per cent, of the college took nothing but elementary, work throughout their college curriculum. On the other hand, confronting the earnest student is the danger of early and extreme specialization. Over 20 per cent, of the University begin to specialize at least as early as the end of their Freshman year. These are some of the evils peculiar to the free elective system. They are sufficiently evident to make...
Davis of Harvard, was the first speaker in rebuttal. He declared that the affirmative had failed to demonstrate by concrete examples that the free elective system solves all educational problems. On the other hand, the negative had proved that the tendency of the foremost educators of the United States is against this system. The negative had also emphasized the evil effects of the free elective system at Harvard, and had illustrated their arguments by specific cases. He advocated a system which would necessitate an organization and supervision of studies by men of more experience and judgment than undergraduate students...