Word: shows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sever 11. There will be a regular debate, with four principal disputants, before the competition, the recent inter-club debate having shown that five-minute speeches really gain in interest from having been preceded by a somewhat longer discussion. This arrangement also offers to candidates an excellent opportunity to show what they can do in rebuttal. The question is: "Resolved, That Japan should be given equal treaty rights with other nations." Principal disputants: S. H. Foster L. S. and L. T. Hildreth '96 for the affirmative; H. L. Belisle '96 and J. Hewins '96 for the negative. This will...
...invention proves as useful as it seems reasonable to hope that it will be, it will perhaps completely revolutionize rowing methods. The testing machine will show by its automatic record what the individual faults of each member of a crew are. By doing this it will give inestimable help to the coaches. Under the present method the coaches have nothing but the eye to guide them in determining upon the strength or weakness of a stroke; the new invention, however, should give them valuable scientific information which would be of inestimable value in forming the stroke for a crew...
...recent fire in Weld will serve as an example to show what harm the neglect of this small precaution may cause. The fire was discovered almost as soon as it started, but several minutes were lost because the student that noticed it first did not know where to go to ring in an alarm. As it happened the fire was a small one, and was quickly put out by the Department, with no loss but the furniture of the room in which the fire started. If the conflagration had been of a more serious nature, and the same delay...
...picture of Hamlet goes, Mr. Tree deserves much praise. He is graceful and well-knit, and he suggests extremely well a melancholy, northern prince. But his presentation of Hamlet is to a very great degree confined to the trappings and outward show...
...figures published in another column from the report of the Dean of the Faculty, show among other things a steady increase in the number of students who are credited before the end of their junior year with sixteen or more courses. The number in 1894 amounted to more than one-fifth of the total number (348) who received the degree of A. B. and of these only three had been credited with courses at the entrance examinations. The figures are evidence that the opportunity which the Faculty allows through the elective system for doing more than the required amount...