Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...quote below an extract from an editorial in the Yale News on the subject of the debate, which will perhaps correct some false impressions produced by the Associated Press account, and is at all events an exceedingly courteous and fair minded criticism of the Harvard speakers...
...series. It was direct all the way through, it never hung on the wording of the question, and it was not marred by any slip of either side. Another characteristic was the intense interest aroused by every speaker and maintained throughout the debate by the exact knowledge of the subject shown on both teams, the perfect form of presentation of Harvard, and the convincing earnestness of Yale. In the rebuttals all these qualities were present and in addition to them a marvellous quickness in grasping and refuting arguments, together with a very unusual power of summing up, and of making...
...committee considered the relation of the Weld Boat Club to the Athletic Association and instructed the chairman to appoint a special committee to consider and report on the subject...
...Marion Crawford, the novelist, delivered the third lecture in aid of the Radcliffe Scholarship fund in Sanders Theatre last evening. Taking for his subject, "Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican," he sketched the personality of the Pope, his life, and his achievements. He characterized Leo XIII as one of the great statesmen and scholars of the age, a man who has raised the church to her present high position in large measure by his own greatness...
...work of preparation briefs for the affirmative and negative were drawn up and the different parts of the subject were given to each man to work up separately. After each man had developed the work allotted to him the regular debates were held and former debaters were called into criticise...