Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the University except Freshmen are cordially invited to speak...
...somehow or other they have failed to draw out more than a small portion of the debating resources which might be at their disposal. In other words, they are not ruly representative, and it is not likely that they ever will be. For most men cannot hope to speak on a 'Varsity debate and feel no obligation to support the clubs. They debate for personal ends...
...Whitney's position as an independent reformer, so to speak, is a delicate one. In the first place there is no hard and fast rule for testing in all cases a man's amateur standing, and just where, in the intermediate territory between the professional and the amateur, the division line is to be drawn, is largely a matter of personal opinion. Certainly the best guide for Harvard men is the code of Harvard rules, while, as for the column in question, it can accomplish nothing without the support of public opinion, and next to nothing without the support...
...obtain this college support by personal application. He knows or ought to know, that the Harvard Athletic Committee is working for the same ends as he, and every whit as earnestly as he. Yet he has attacked individuals under the committee's jurisdiction, without giving them a chance to speak for themselves. The course he has thus taken runs the risk of error, and it tends very strongly to cause such distrust and illfeeling as to destroy the influence which he might exert as the ally of the conservative movement in the colleges toward athletic reform...
...members of the University are urged to speak...