Word: openers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Baker delivered a short address on the relation between Freshman and University debating, emphasizing the necessity of holding free and open discussions...
These lectures will continue during the half-year, and will be open to all members of the University interested in fundamental problems in philosophy...
Professor Eugen Kuehnemann, visiting professor from the University of Breslau, will give the first of a series of readings from German authors next Monday evening at 8 o'clock in Emerson J. The reading will be from Schiller's "Maria Stuart," and will be open to the public. In the present half-year, Professor Kuehnemann will also read from the works of Kliest, Grillparzer, and Hebbel. And in the second half-year portions of Goethe's "Faust" will be read. In addition to reading from the text, Professor Kuehnemann will make a few introductory remarks concerning each author, and will...
...highly specialized art of debating become disgusted and drift away. A certain attention of course must be paid to form and procedure, and the development of a Freshman team to meet the Yale freshmen must be considered. Still, a fair proportion of the meetings should be devoted to open discussion of topics which interest not only debaters, but scholars, athletes, and everyone else. This arrangement gives practice in clear thinking and speaking to a large number who have neither time nor inclination to go in for strictly academic debating, and makes the club of much more vital importance...
...those who engage in it than the honorable carrying out of the work they undertake. In choosing the work in which he is to engage, the student is not limited to the few activities of which he may happen to know, but the whole field of charities is open...