Word: speech
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...third trial which shall be held not later than two weeks after the first trial, these men shall speak in a formal debate each man having a main speech of twelve minutes and a rebuttal speech of five minutes. The judges shall then choose the three men and an alternate whom they think best qualified to speak against Princeton...
...pick the best men with fairness and accuracy than the old method. Under the system which has heretofore been the general rule, it is extremely hard for the judges to select the best four out of a large number of five minute speakers. Then again a five minute speech in offering little opportunity for rebuttal does not furnish a true criterion of argumentative power. By providing for more than one preliminary trial if the number of contestants is large, the new regulations insure adequate trial to every promising debater, and in the second trial the longer speeches will bring...
Though the number of speakers was small the trial as a whole was encouraging. There was a marked attempt at rebuttal work and the majority of the speakers confined themselves to one or two points instead of endeavoring to cover the whole field in a five minute speech...
...final trial five men will speak on the affirmative and five on the negative, each man being allowed five minutes for his opening speech and three minutes for his rebuttal...
References: Bastable's Public Finance; Seligman's Essays in Taxation; Lalor's Encyclopaedia, I, pp. 525-527; Hill, D. B., Speech in U. S. Senate, Jan. 11, '95; Pub. Op., XXII, p. 197, also XXVII...