Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale and Princeton to a conference on debating to be held in New York in the near future. The work of the conference will be simply to discuss questions of dates and general policy and to bring the three universities into closer relations. It is hoped that this will interest the graduates of the universities in debating as there will be a prominent graduate of each institution present. It was left to the three debating clubs to select the undergraduate member while the committee will select the graduate member. The conference will have no power to make arrangements...
...York Life's leadership is also shown in its greater promptness, completeness and frankness in report-making. Its annual report for 1895 was published January 11, 1896, and contained a complete schedule of its bonds and stocks, with interest rates and market values. Realestate schedules are also published for distribution to all who ask for them. The report is made after methods understood by the public, upon the basis of business completed and money actually received and disbursed, without the old-time padding and cross-entries...
...best results to put most of one's time on one subject for a continuous period, as in thesis writing.- (2) It is always desirable that students should feel that they can work continuously on one subject if they wish to.- (x) To prevent them from so doing checks interest.- (3) Rigid enforcement of one method of work tends to check independence and spontaneity of method...
...speakers. When the Yale freshmen won the debate last year, the enthusiasm was tremendous, the speakers were carried from the hall on the shoulders of their classmates, and were given the fence, the highest honor that can be awarded to a freshman at Yale. This is what aroused the interest of the Yale undergraduates in debating and caused them to make the efforts that ended in Harvard's defeat this year. It is just this sort of enthusiasm that should be shown here on Friday night if our freshmen win the debate...
...conventional comic opera style. The dialogue contains few novelties and becomes rather monotonous toward the end. Moreover the play does not seem to be evenly balanced, all of the action excepting the denouement itself coming in the first act. For this reason the second act fails to retain the interest of the spectator, and seems almost an anti-climax...