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With the passing of class and inter-club, debates, the important event in intra-University debating is the Pasteur Medal debate tonight between teams picked in open competition. This department of debating has been so often reorganized that any now move must be regarded as an experiment. To the uninitiated the various changes in recent years seem to be steps backward, in as far as they tend to reduce the number of men who take part in public debates. If, however, the more informal discussion groups attract more men, they will partially accomplish their purpose, and may lead...
...absorbs the interest of a vast crowd of sideline shouters; and it disregards the real object of College sport--a general participation in healthful exercise for recreation and larger acquaintance. It is worth while considering whether the whole system of athletics should not be changed, either to one completely intra-college, or, as suggested by Mr. R. A. Derby '05, in the "Outlook" for October 5, 1907, to one of fewer outside games and more intra-college competition. Mr. Derby's scheme would leave the Yale game or some important contest, which would still mean with our "American temperament" considerable...
...writer offers. The many advantages of intercollegiate athletics so far outweigh the minor objections which are made to them that we need hardly review the arguments which justify and call for their continuance. Suffice it to say that the interest which intercollegiate contests arouse will never accompany any intra-college sports, no matter how carefully their status is worked out, and, if anyone objects to them on the grounds of too much enthusiasm, he surely would not care to see the indifference which would result from a few years of intra-college sports...
...Mercury. The opinions on this subject are divided. Each side has many strong arguments, but it has generally been conceded that, if judgment may be made from the movements of the other planetary bodies, this slight defection at times from their proper course would indicate the influence of an intra-Mercurial planet...
...search will also be made for the intra-Mecurial planet, about whose existence astronomers are very much in doubt...