Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...business and professional men-graduates of Harvard-I can see no reason why they should be inconvenienced by the change. Even if the exercises are extended, there is bound to be one day most full of interest, the day of the tree exercises. And the change of plan has the advantage that if a graduate can not come on one day he may be able to come on another...
...Class Day Committee proposes to extend the Class Day exercises over two or three days and urges as a reason for this that "there are now so many spreads.. that the guests do not and can not enjoy them." It seems that this statement is at best open to argument...
Even for those candidates who do not make the team, however, there is reason for trying. The training is as pleasant and as healthful as any that can be had during the winter months. In fact there is no indoor practice, open to all students, that is so agreeable and healthful, and at the same time so vigorous and systematic as the training with the Mott Haven Squad...
...done in the selection of new material, as an unusually large number of the best men of last year's team have left College and their places must be filled by new men, if a winning team is to be made up. There seems to be no reason why Harvard with her large field for selection, larger than any other college has, should not get together a winning team more often than has been the case of late, and it is hard for many of the graduates who were winners on the old Mott Haven Team for years to understand...
...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...