Word: renderings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charge had been brought up against him. After three months he was taken to Chicago, where he remained for twelve more months in the Cook County Jail. Finally the trial was held, but according to Mr. Manning, the conditions that obtained in the court-room were such as to render an impartial decision by the jury impossible. A band was hired to play patriotic airs outside the court-house, squads of soldiers were marched about in the court-room, and witnesses for the defense were arrested, beaten up, and told to got out of the city...
According to the triangular agreement, the subject this year was selected by Yale and worded by Princeton. The term "house" is used to refer to the audience, which will be given an opportunity to render an informal opinion, although the official decision will be made in each case by three judges...
...Greater sincerity" is the keynote. It the audience is to render the decision according to its attitude at the close of the debate, the speaker must not only present a logical case, but must do so with that conviction which only his belief in the cause he advocates can produce. The formal rebuttal following the main speeches could often be prepared ahead of time; but informal rebuttal preceding the speech necessitates rapid, logical thinking on the platform. The statement of the society that a debater should speak only in support of his own convictions is more important as an expression...
...Fanning '23, coach of the Freshman debating team, has announced that the audience, voting purely on the merits of the case, will render the decision after the Freshman debate with Vassar, which will be held at Poughkeepsie on March 3. The subject of the debate will be: "Resolved, that the United States should enter into an agreement for the mutual cancellation of interallied war debts". The personnel of the Crimson team will not be announced until a week before the debate...
...possed recently. These reforms follow the tendencies towards more informal debating which mark the innovations which will be put into effect in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate to take place on March 23, but they go much further. They are briefly as follows: First, to have the audience render the decision and thereby have more attention attracted to the question. Second, to have no rebuttal. Third, to have less formal preparation. Fourth and last, to try to come closer to the real truth of the question...