Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...educational advantage the actual presentation of a tragedy characteristic of the highest degree of art reached in French Literature offers to most members of the University a unique and most valuable opportunity. No one who has the slightest interest in that branch of culture can afford to let the week pass without being present at one of the three remaining performances. They will take place Wednesday and Friday nights and Saturday afternoon...
...never hung on the wording of the question, and it was not marred by any slip of either side. Another characteristic was the intense interest aroused by every speaker and maintained throughout the debate by the exact knowledge of the subject shown on both teams, the perfect form of presentation of Harvard, and the convincing earnestness of Yale. In the rebuttals all these qualities were present and in addition to them a marvellous quickness in grasping and refuting arguments, together with a very unusual power of summing up, and of making the line of reasoning a compact whole. So evenly...
...second of the inter-club debates of the year between the Union and the Forum was held last evening in Sever 11. The question discussed was: "Resolved, That the present system of no-license should be maintained in Cambridge." The Union supported the affirmative and the Forum the negative. The contest was very close, but after considerable deliberation the judges awarded the debate to the affirmative...
...United States can not consistently with its past policy consider the question of guaranteed neutrality, since it refused to do so in 1888, when propsed by England and Germany. The present advantages under the reciprocity treaty would be lost. This would simply be a makeshift and likely to lead us into many quarrles. A protectorate, either one which would retain Hawaii's sovereignty or one which would given the United States the supreme government, is both inexpedient and incompatible with our national policy. The former would mean eventual Japaness domination, the latter would in reality be annexation. Neither...
...Fisher closed his remarks by asserting that our present policy of continuing the status quo of the islands was sufficient to keep out other nations; that their very community of interests in Hawaii would incline them to help us maintain that policy, and that this was better than risking diplomatic complications...