Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleepingbag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions in order to discover the one in which the pressure of the stones was least felt...
...facts? Did not the Harvard speakers go to Sanders Theatre for the purpose of convincing three judges of acknowledged ability and impartiality that they could handle the question at issue better than any representatives of Yale? That was their one main object, and in that they failed. The vital point for Harvard debating now is not how we beat Yale and yet lost the debate, but why we were beaten. It matters comparatively little what we may at length decide the true reason to have been. It may be that our speakers for once forgot the good old Harvard principle...
...morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleepingbag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions in order to discover the one in which the pressure of the stones was least felt...
...communication published in another column draws some very pertinent lessons from our recent defeat in the debate with Yale. The first point made by the writer, while undoubtedly true, is a matter of debating tactics and requires no comment here. The second point, however, is one that demands the serious attention of every one interested in intercollegiate debating...
Something must be done to prevent debates from degenerating on account of ambiguity in the question into the farce which last Friday's debate was from one point of view. We saw there two teams arguing on what were really two different questions, but which could yet both be deduced from the same subject for debate. In order that no more debates may be lost by such disagreements as to the meaning of the question, some radical reforms in the matter of question must be introduced. The questions must first be framed as simply as possible; and some further means...