Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oxford-Cambridge team which has visited this country in recent years has brought with it a new and lighter attitude towards debating, the influence of which it is not hard to see. The following comment on last weekend's debate against Yale, from the Boston Transcript, challenges the humor which is being espoused in this country as a forensic weapon. It follows in part...
...reputations and personalities if brought to such close quarters. With the option's expiration imminent, London alumni conducted dignified propaganda; London students-visualizing escape from "the merciless, grasping Bloomsbury landladies" into cloistered dormitories like those at Oxford and Cambridge-prepared a "rag" (street demonstration savoring of humor and earnestness...
Basil Davenport, the final speaker for the affirmative delivered the most brilliant speech of the evening, and won the audience over to the Yale position. He began by complaining that education dried up one's sense of humor. He also asked how education could recompease us for the diseases and evils which it brings on us and then is itself necessary to cure them. Going off on a different line. Davenport represented himself as a Spartan coming to Athens, which was represented by Harvard, to show the people there that their ideal of education was not the one on which...
When there is John Lucia who has twenty children, according, to the last census, one gray horse, one Ford truck, a sense of humor, and, naturally, a wife. And though John can manage the horse, the truck, and even the sense of humor --Jennie goes her own way. Last fall she wanted to drive a car since John refused to spend his time in the cinema at Burlington--she did. And the rumor is that she had to go out of Charlotte to get the license, for a tree near the store is proof positive that she could get none...
This plan is intentionally very like that of the Oxford debates in which the Keenness and humor of the debaters are as important as their mental profundity and ratiocinative powers. It is also believed that this system will be more enjoyable to both audience and the debaters...