Word: picked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major changes were made in the rules for debate. The decision of three judges had been proven unsatisfactory, as had also the attempt to allow the audience to pick the winning team, so the two methods will be combined next year. That is, each of the three judges will have one vote and the audience will have one vote, three votes being necessary to win a debate. Also the convention went on record as favoring open forums after the debate, whenever possible, in which the audience may take part. This plan was followed unofficially this year by both Princeton...
...Chairman of the Committee, will outline the plans for next year and will explain the innovations which have recently been instituted in the advisory system. The most important change is the cutting down of the number of advisers to about 75. A particular effort has been made to pick men who will be willing and able to give their attention to the problem of advising Freshmen...
When Brown first arrives in Cambridge he mistakes the Dickey Clubhouse for his dormitory and is thrown out on his ear. Nothing daunted, he proceeds to "pick up" the pretty daughter of a professor. The following spring, the night before the boat races at New London, he gets stewed, although he is substitute stroke on the freshman crew and is called upon to row the race, which he loses. Finally, with his help, Harvard licks Yale at football ten to three. Is it necessary to go on? You may not know much about Harvard, but believe me, such things just...
...critics who have attended many a Bach Festival spoke reverently of the spirit that presided, of the atmosphere that pervaded, of the devotion of the chorus and its leader. They dared pick faults with the ensemble playing of the men imported from the Philadelphia Symphony, the work of the soloists, hinted that people who became pilgrims and traveled a long distance and then paid three dollars for each of the four concerts had a right to expect better things...
...done under 49 seconds, the new dual meet record established by Kane against Dartmouth last Saturday. The Crimson runner negotiated a wet track, in the rain to break the tape well ahead of the Green runner. Should he hit his best stride against the Blue, Harvard may well pick up two more points in the 440-yard dash, which would give the Crimson more latitude in the field events, where, according to the CRIMSON'S figures. Harvard will have to be at its best to stand off the Elis...