Word: inter
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...debating system will be tried at Yale in preparation for the Harvard-Yale debate. Under the proposed plan there will be a series of inter-department debates for the university championship. The Law, Divinity, Academic and Scientific departments will select teams by competitive trials from the debating clubs in these departments. The Academic department will then debate against the Scientific School, and the Law School against the Divinity School; and the winners of these two debates will meet to decide the championship. The men who make the best showing in these preliminary trials will be selected to debate against Harvard...
...interest to wane, there would also be a difficulty regarding university arrangements, and it might not always be easy to meet the expenses. Moreover it is desirable in the return matches that the teams should be mainly composed of new blood. But return matches there should be, and inter-university contests ought certainly to be encouraged, not only for the good of the athletes themselves, but also for the good of the Empire of which they form no unimportant factor...
...were carried still further by Captain Higginson. The old system of class races was abandoned, the Newell Club was formed, the men divided between the Weld and Newell, and the time for picking the University Crew squad deferred until about May 1, after there had been three sets of inter-class and inter-club races...
Furthermore, once this course was established and students had received the benefits from it, they would doubtless desire to take up higher courses of the same nature, so that they could inter-come the difficulties and perfect themselves in the language. In French and German they have such courses, which enable them to write and speak those languages in the most satisfactory manner; hence Spanish students, who find a speaking knowledge of the language of as much, if not of more value than French, should enjoy the same privileges as those in the French Department. A. A. CAPOTOSTO...
...Club, to vary what perhaps might have become a monotony of regular camp debates, arranged a class championship contest in debating and a series of debates with outside organizations. In the case of these it is customary too old the outside debates during the first half year and the inter-class series during the second half. The speakers for these contests are chosen by competitive debates and are coached by members of former University teams. These debates have a value peculiar to themselves; for they give a large number of men a chance to speak before varied audiences...