Word: renders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constructive Criticism Committee of the Business School, since its inauguration in the spring of 1922, has been able to render signal service to members of the school and correct many faults and objections which were made. Of the eighteen odd criticisms received by the committee definite action was taken on all but one. Among the more important changes made were the standardization of notepaper, reorganization of the report writing system, better lighting in the Library, the adoption of anonymous grading of reports, and the revising of proctors' duties...
...Resolved: "That Harvard should limit intercollegiate football to one annual contest with Yale supplementing it with the Oxford system of intramural contests". In both debates the decision of the judges was unanimous in favor of the affirmative. The experiment inaugurated by the Harvard Debating Council of having the audience render a decision upon the merits of the case while the judges decide solely upon superiority of presentation has produced an interesting result. The audience at the Freshman-Sophomore debate, numbering in all about fifty students voted by a ratio of three to one in favor of the affirmative, thus agreeing...
...debate will be open to all members of the University. In trying to evolve a new method of rendering a decision in the judging of debates, the Debating Council has resolved to try an experiment, combining the English system of popular judgement on the merits of the case with the American system of decision by judges on the superiority of argument and presentation. Tonight the audience will render a decision on the merits of the case, and the judges on the presentation. Whether the two will agree is the point of interest in the experiment. The judges' decision, however, will...
...Commercial flying is slow to get started in this country because it has had no assistance from the government. We do not need a government subsidy, such as many European countries have. That is not being considered here. But it is essential, before commercial flying can render adequate service in this country, that the government assume control over aviation, and render assistance in so-called 'ground organization'. That is, it should lay out and mark air-ways, establish landing fields, and arrange lights to guide the aviator by night...
...Wendling quarter from Stuttgart, Germany, will render a program of chamber music this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. There will be no admission charge. Seats will be reserved for officers and students in the University and their friends, but after that the doors will be opened to the public...