Word: maining
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Newland '06 will speak on the affirmative and G. Clark 2L. M. Danatchnick '06, and G.W. Putnam 2G, will speak on the negative of the question, "Resolved, That a commission be given power to fix railroad rates." Each man will be allowed to speak twelve minutes in his main speech and five minutes in his main speech and five minutes in rebuttal. The Coolidge Prize of $100 will be awarded to the speaker who is judged to have done the best work in all three trials. The judges will be Professor, I.L. Winter, Professor G.P. Baker, and Hon. A.P. Stone...
...Juniors supported the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, That the president of the French Republic should be elected by popular vote," speaking in the following order both in their main and rebuttal speeches: J. W. Plaisted, A. N. Holcombe, J. A. Harley. The Sophomore team, composed of W. H. Keeling, S. F. Peavey and M. C. Leckner, spoke in the order named, but in rebuttal Keeling spoke first, Leckner second, and Peavey third. Both teams made use of too many quotations instead of developing their statements from their own arguments. In the rebuttal speeches the Sophomores met their opponents' arguments...
...Friday, March 10, and since that time have been debating regularly with the second teams. M. Thelen sL. has been coaching the Junior team, and H. LeB. Sampson L. '04 the Sophomores. The Junior team will support the affirmative, and will speak in the following order, both in their main and rebuttal speeches: J. W. Plaisted. A. N. Holcombe, J. A. Harley. H. A. Nye, alternate, who made the team at the final trials, was prevented from taking part in the debate on account of recent illness. The Sophomores will speak in the following order: W. H. Keeling...
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...closing the main argument of the affirmative, N. M. Thomas said that still another standpoint from which to argue the question is that of logic,--the almost inevitable consequence of existing conditions. The old education was the result of old conditions, and the colleges have had to adapt themselves to new conditions almost against their will. Mention has already been made of the inevitable trend of education towards election. The field of valuable knowledge is so broad that no man can traverse the whole ground. Choice must be made. Who shall make it? We are compelled to answer...