Word: mooted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Welles VanNess Moot '08, of Buffalo, N. Y., has loaned his auxiliary schooner yacht "Adventuress" to the University for use in practical instruction in seamanship and navigation for men taking naval training courses. The yacht was delivered at Fort Jefferson, L. I., and arrived at Marblehead on June 5 under the command of Tucker Daland '73, assisted by Dr. H. T. Stetson, of the Astronomical Laboratory, and eight members of the training courses...
During the summer months we may expect productions of pure foolishness to hold away in our theatres. It is no longer a moot question whether they are desirable, for they have been proved conclusively to represent a form of dramatic relaxation--relaxation to the extent of putting a public which has witnessed a few of these into a receptive mind for plays with more mental meat in them. Truly a good influence. "Mary's Ankle," which is now on exhibition at Ye Wilbur Theatre is just that type of play. It takes not one ounce of brains to appreciate...
Aside from other objections to this anti-propaganda is exceedingly difficult of practical definition. Perhaps a majority of Harvard professors urge upon their students views of moot questions and pet doctrines well within the dictionary meaning of the term--always indicating to the class, of course, that the matter is in the field of contention. All the speakers mentioned in the list above apparently were considered not propagandists. Neither was Captain Ian Hay Beith, whom the CRIMSON accurately referred to as having "been sent to this country by the British Government to explain Britain's part...
...athlete receives all the cheering and praise and the undergraduate scholar none, is a moot question. Yet one answer may be suggested. A group of sturdy college athletes can play a game of football as well as it ever can be played. On the other hand, it is highly ridiculous to compare for an instant the theses or examinations of undergraduate scholars with the productions of famous scholars and professors. The crux of the question is this: the college man is just about in his prime physically and can performs athletic feats as well as they can be done...
There were 22 clubs entered in the competition which takes the form of an elimination tournament, and consists of a series of trials of moot cases, an agreed statement of facts being framed by the Board of Student Advisers. At each argument the clubs are represented by two counsel apiece, only second-year men being allowed to compete...