Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution of the Eastern Intercollegiate Debate League which leaves to a vote of the audience decisions in all League debates marks an improvement in the mechanics of this exercise. Not only will the audience cast its vote at the conclusion of the debate, but it will ballot on the question before the discussion starts. A decided shift in opinion in the second vote from the first will indicate a new conviction on the part of the audience, a conviction established by the arguments of one debating team...
...that the audience of over one thousand at the last concert is a good testimony of appreciation, the Glee Club sees no reason why the usual number of two concerts might not be increased to three or four another year. There are three factors which enter into such a question: The expense, the time spent by the singers in giving concerts, and the factor of restraint in not overdoing a good thing...
There is some slight expense incurred for every performance which unless multiplied too often is negligible. The main question is that of time. When we consider that the Glee Club has three rehearsals and an average of one concert a week throughout the year, it will be evident that as the final exams approach, the members should not be taxed too much...
...suggestion of V. K. Kwong '30, the committee assembled decided that in the future the vote of the audience was to be the only judge of the merits of the debate as presented. It was decided to have the audience vote on the question of the debate both before and after the debaters have spoken, thereby having the victory determined entirely by the amount of persuasion that a team can bring to bear upon its hearers...
...books, certainly, Dr. Brown's does little to satisfy the questioning spirit which above all must be met with its own weapons. Whether Mr. Spaulding has succeeded in doing this is an open question, but at least he has descended from the pulpit and entered into the midst of the congregation...