Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lapsly '99, and W. A. Talcott 1L. Clapp has a weak wrist and is listless; Palfrey is quick but has little form; Green shows his lack of experience; Luquer is slow; Lapsly is painstaking but not quick on the parry; Talcott slashes a good deal. If interest is kept up and the men continue to work a good team ought to be turned out in spite of the general lack of experience. It is hoped that the college tournament which will probably come off in a couple of weeks will develop outside material...
...point of organization, equipment, and general management, the schools of Brookline are not surpassed by any in the country. Mr. Dutton's successful experience both in New Haven and in Brookline enables him to bring to these lectures a valuable fund of practical suggestions that can not fail to interest all students of the important problems involved in the organization and administration of schools and school systems. The titles of Superintendent Dutton's lectures are as follows...
...first Freshman debating club at Harvard was formed two years ago when the present Junior class were Freshmen. A club was also organized for last year's Freshmen, and these first two Freshman clubs were quite successful both in interesting many men in debating at the beginning of their college course and in giving them good preliminary training before they came to join the Forum or the Union. This success has been due largely to the fact that up to this year there has been a debate with the Yale freshmen at the end of the season, arousing interest...
...attention to what is apparently the debating strength of the university but really that of preparatory schools. This action leaves the present Freshman club without any final important debate to prepare for, and the time has now come when something of this kind is needed to keep up the interest of all the members...
...obviously for the good of debating in the University to arouse the greatest possible interest among the first and second year students; for this will do much toward raising the standard of future intercollegiate speakers. In the apparent absence of other plans, therefore, we propose a debate between representatives of the Sophomore and Freshman classes. If this plan were tried and found successful it might well be made a yearly event. If, however, it should not offer the advantages embodied in the former intercollegiate debates or help in any way to take the place of those debates, it need...