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The team from the Sophomore Debating Club was defeated by Exeter Academy at Exeter last night. The question was the same as that of the Princeton debate. The Harvard speakers, who were superior to their opponents in form, based their argument on England's moral right to intervene in the...
The speaking last night was very creditable and the delivery was especially pleasing. The weaknesses were want of form in massing points, a bad tendency to make unsupported statements and to draw unauthorized inferences, and evident inability to judge the real value of an argument. Though, because of these faults...
Since last Friday there has been more or less discussion throughout the University as to the reasons for our defeat at the hands of Yale. Many men, like Mr. Warren in this morning's CRIMSON, have spoken up honestly, acknowledged our defeat, and sought the cause in our own defects...
Again Grant advanced, this time massing his whole force on the west bank and getting supplies by the river. But Haines's Bluff had proved impregnable, and a landing on the south side was out of the question because supplies could not be brought down past the batteries.
In the advance upon Corinth, which, by its position as a railroad centre, was a vital point in the line to which Johnston bad retreated, Grant took up a position at Pittsburg Landing, on the Tennessee. Here he awaited the arrival of Buell with strong re-enforcements. The position was...