Word: longer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...five minute speech in offering little opportunity for rebuttal does not furnish a true criterion of argumentative power. By providing for more than one preliminary trial if the number of contestants is large, the new regulations insure adequate trial to every promising debater, and in the second trial the longer speeches will bring out capabilities in sustained work and rebuttal. The final step in this weeding out process in its character of a regular debate, is calculated to be a sure test both of ability in presentation and rebuttal. On the whole then although the plan may need modification...
...CREW.- Men who were not taken to the training table yesterday need not report at the 'Varsity boat house any longer. All these men are urged to go out for the '99 Weld crew today...
...Junior crew rowed in its new shell for the first time yesterday. The new boat seemed to be very good, although more than three feet longer than the original shell...
...entire lack of available life saving apparatus at the Weld boat house. In previous years there has been a whitehall boat, the property of the club, moored to the float for the express purpose of putting out to the rescue of shipwrecked oarsmen, but unfortunately it is no longer seaworthy as it has been left in the river all winter. There is now a boat belonging to the City of Cambridge placed at the boat house by the I ark Commission for life saving purposes, but as it is chained and padlocked to the float without the seemingly necessary accompaniment...
Others need not report any longer at the University boat house, but they are strongly urged to present themselves as candidates for the Weld crew...