Word: question
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...Yale that the annual debate at New Haven next spring be held in March on the same evening and on the same subject as the Harvard-Princeton debate here. If Yale agrees to the plan, the teams that represent Harvard in both debates will argue opposite sides of the question agreed upon. The third debate in the Intercollegiate series this year--between Yale and Princeton--will be held at Princeton in December...
...both Harvard and Yale were chosen at the first meeting at which the subject came up. In spite of occasional differences of opinion, such matters are regarded from much the same point of view by the graduates and undergraduates of both universities, and a prompt agreement upon a question so important as the selection of officials is a step in the right direction...
...Advocate is a good average number, containing nothing of very marked distinction and nothing notably below standard. The editorial is a sensible and tactfully written discussion of the question of Freshman clubs; and in "Varied Outlooks," J. Richardson, Jr., writes moderately in defence of athletics. The points he makes are good points, but they do not always bear on the objections they are meant to answer. Team-play does indeed cultivate honesty and unselfishness, but it is quite possible without the commercializing of athletics, which it is here used to defend. In "The Poet who Dies Young," Van Wyck Brooks...
...question decided upon for the Pasteur Medal debate reads: "Resolved, That the French Government was justified in passing the Separation Act." The first trials, at which 12 men will be chosen, will be held on next Tuesday at 7.30 o'clock in Upper Dane. Entries should be sent to S. H. Hurwitz 1G., Stoughton 29, before noon on Monday. The order of speakers will be posted in Upper Dane not later than 12 o'clock on the day of the debate. Any man whose name does not appear on the list may speak at the end of the regular order...
...Speeches will be limited to five minutes, and may be on either side of the question. At the final trials, which will take place on Friday, November 15, this limit will be extended to 10-minutes, and two teams of three men each will be chosen. The final debate will be held on Friday, December 6. The Pasteur Medal will be awarded to the best speaker at this debate...