Word: select
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first trials to select the team to debate against Yale will be held this evening at 7 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. Each speaker will be allowed five minutes to talk on other side of the question: "Resolved, That a commission be given power to fix railroad rates." From twelve to fifteen men will be retained for further trial. Everyone who intends to speak must hand in his name to Perkins 34 before 12 o'clock, so that the order of speaking, to be determined, by lot, may be posted in Gore Hall by 1 o'clock...
...question for debate was "Resolved. That, the free elective system is the best available plan for the undergraduate course of study. It is understood, that: 1. The free elective system is one based on the principle that each student should select for himself all his studies throughout his college course. 2. The free elective system, thus defined, exists even when a minor part of the studies of the freshman year is prescribed...
Thomas of Princeton in reply argued that in these days freshmen are competent to select for themselves their courses of study. Princeton has adopted a system whereby this is permitted. To require a man to take unnecessary subject is high injustice; it is of prime importance that a system of study does not bring restriction to certain fixed courses...
...trials to select the Harvard team, open to all men in the University, will be held on the evenings of Wednesday, March 29, Saturday, April 1, and Wednesday, April 5, in the New Lecture Hall. At the first trial each man will be allowed to speak five minutes, and from twelve to fifteen men will be retained. At the second trial each man will allowed ten minutes, and six men will be retained. These six men will be divided by lot into two teams, which, at the final trial, will conduct a regular debate with main speeches of twelve minutes...
...final trials to select the Freshman team to debate against Exeter on April 15 will be held this evening at 7.15 o'clock in the Old Billiard Room of the Union. The six men retained at the last trials will hold a debate on the question, "Resolved, That trusts should be regulated by federal legislation." The men will speak as follows: affirmative--B. M. Nussbaum, P. L. Butler, J. S. Davis; negative--E. R. Lewis, R. T. Mack, D. Rosenblum. The three best speakers will form the first team, and from the others, who will compose the second team...