Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Christmas number of Harper's Weekly Caspar Whitney urges that college faculties ought to put an end to "these football junketings which every year, about this season, are labelled 'the annual holiday trip' of the Yale or Princeton or Harvard, as the case may be, 'consolidated football team...
...CRIMSON publishes this morning a very important communication from the Class Day Committee suggesting changes in the Class Day exercises. These changes were proposed to the Committee by the Corporation and are put before the members of the Senior Class in order to get their opinions. The changes proposed are radical and must be carefully considered before a final opinion, either for or against them, is expressed or any decision come...
...they say such debates would create a more widespread interest in the affairs of the Government. Is there any lack of interest in this country when a question comes up which is of vital importance? Debating has been so abused in England that it has been found necessary to put checks...
...ability of the individual contestants which figures in these intercollegiate competitions as it is the debating training of the university which they represent." A strange enigma; for it is in "the forensic ability of the individual contestants" that the debating training which a university gives to its members is put to the test. This very fact is a potent reason for insisting that the forensic ability of the individual debaters shall count for all it is worth and not be deprived of its individuality by coaching...
...Harvard attempts to limit as much as possible faculty coaching, but refuses to put any limitation whatever on the eligibility for debating team of any student, no matter what the character of his studentship may be. I have this year no connection with Yale, except as a graduate; last year I was a member of the "faculty" in the broad sense in which the word includes all whose names are on the list of officers. Is there any reason why I could now legitimately do what would have been illegitimate last year, or would the case be altered...