Word: selections
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...joint committee of the Wendell Phillips Club and Harvard Union have completed arrangements for the competition to select the speakers. Owing to the ever increasing number of men who try for these debates, it has been thought advisable, this year, to adopt a new method of choice...
...first to lay emphasis on the idea that college athletic games should be played on college grounds. It is interesting to see that the principle has met approval elsewhere. We are not ourselves convinced that the principle is altogether feasible: it is certainly best, all things considered, to select such grounds as will give gate receipts large enough to make private subscriptions to the teams unnecessary; and tie games cannot well be played on the grounds of either of the competing teams...
...Fawkes in the cellar of St. Stephen's. We often hear of people who will descend to any servility, submit to any insult, for the sake of getting themselves or their children into what is euphemistically called good society. Did it ever occur to them that there is a select society of all the centuries to which they and theirs can be admitted for the asking, a society, too, which will not involve them in ruinous expense and still more ruinous waste of time and health and faculties? Du gleichst dem Geist den du begreifst, says the World Spirit...
This evening a trial debate will be held under the auspices of the Wendell Phillips Club and the Harvard Union, to select three speakers to represent Harvard in the coming debate with Yale. This will be the sixth in the Harvard-Yale series, and will be held in New Haven on or about April...
unchanged. The juniors must select the course in Logic, Psychology and Ethics (3 hours); and the seniors one of four two-hour courses in the department of Philosophy...