Word: minors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale, during the past two years, there has been a remarkably rapid growth of interest in debating A series of lectures by eminent public men has been arranged for this year, by the Yale Union, many minor debates are held between societies not organized for debate, between eating clubs and different tables in the Commons for example, and a set of prizes to be awarded annually after Yale's two intercollegiate debates have taken place, has been established...
...collegiate interest in debate, should not fall behind in developing that interest. The Harvard Union, like the Yale Union, has arranged a series of lectures on public speaking. The debating courses here give opportunity for practice in debate which probably more than equals in real value the frequent minor debates at Yale. But we do not yet offer prizes for excellence in debating...
...welcomed; not only because it will be an aid to success in the intercollegiate debates, but because it will help to broaden the field and increase the good results of Harvard's system of instruction in public speaking, in which the intercollegiate debates are but attendant events of minor importance, not the ends in themselves of that training...
...expedition was made last spring by Professor Agassiz to the coral reefs of the Pacific near Australia. Other minor expeditions were made to the Everglades...
Another meeting of the Executive Committee will be held February 27, to act upon minor changes in the eligibility rules of the association...