Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Using a combination of the Oxford and Oregon plans of debating, the Harvard orators meet the Western Reserve University speakers at Holden Chapel at 8.15 o'clock this evening. Two Harvard men and one Western Reserve debater will support the negative side of the proposition: "Resolved, That the principle of complete freedom of speech on political and economic grounds is sound" and will be opposed by two Western Reserve men and one Harvard speaker...
Among ten baronetcies bestowed last week the only one of note went to famed Motors Tycoon William R. Morris, "England's Ford," maker of the staunch little Morris-Cowley and Morris-Oxford...
Anthony Asquith, who was one of Oxford's most flagrant esthetes, called "Puffin," three years ago, went, last year, to Hollywood to study U. S. cinema technique. He was shown about by Douglas Fairbanks and Charles Chaplin. He is considered the best director in England today. His next film will be The Cottage at Darmoor...
...Department of Government during the second half year of 1929-30. J. B. Hedges, Ph.D. '24, Associate Professor of American History at Clark University, will remain throughout the year as lecturer in the Department of History. E. S. Griffith, who received his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Oxford in 1925, and who is now Associate Professor in the School of Citizenship at Syracuse University, will lecture in the Department of Government...
...each team sets forth the arguments of his side. The second man questions the opposition, and one member of each team then summarizes the disputations which favor his contentions. The audience render the verdict after quizzing the participants to their own satisfaction. By combining the best elements of the Oxford system of free discussion and the present unsatisfactory American procedure, this most recent innovation in the sphere of intercollegiate argumentation may supplant the existing scheme and provide a stimulus long desired...