Word: moot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These clubs are the survivors of a two-year moot-court competition, which about 65 clubs originally entered during the students' first year at the school. Winners of this week's arguments will meet in January for the finals of the Ames Competition...
...needed utility expansion which had been held up because of the industry's fear of what the Government next might do to it or Wall Street. Whether this expansion is still needed now that power sales have been dwindling for six months is moot, but last week Jesse Jones declared that RFC would be glad to give utilities money for expansion. Said he: "We have heard a lot of talk about the expanding they could do if they got the right kind of money. We have the money and we will lend it to them right. Not for refinancing...
...question, "what does an individual get out of a college education?" is still classified as moot. One expert in the field, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, has from time to time in the past decade given alarming answers. Nearly ten years ago it began testing students in Pennsylvania to find out what they knew, how much they were learning. All told it has tested some 55,000 Pennsylvanians, as high-school seniors, as college sophomores and as college seniors. Last week the Foundation issued a summary of this tremendous study, called The Student and His Knowledge, Bulletin...
...quarter finals of this competition for the coveted Ames Prize is only open to second year men, as the first year men take part in the "moot" trials for the Roscoe Pound Prize. The Ames Competition arguments are open to the public free of charge...
...moot court arguments runner-up honors went to Shepherd Brooks '36 and George M. Duff, Jr. of the Scott Law Club; and Malcolm E. Erskine and Bryan S. Moore, Root Law Club representatives...