Word: system
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well-supported movement for the introduction of the dormitory system at Radcliffe is on foot among the alumnae. At a recent meeting of those interested in the subject, President Eliot, Miss Irwin, dean of the college, and others spoke heartily in favor of the movement. Mr. J. B. Warner, a member of the council of Radcliffe, also spoke. He mentioned that a desirable piece of land, suitable for the proposed building and of those that in course of time must follow it, as well as for the play-ground so much needed, could be acquired for about...
...Committee on Intercollegiate Debates wishes to announce that, with the sanction of the Advisory Committee on Debating, the following system of trial debates will be used in selecting Harvard's representatives against Princeton...
Taken as a whole it seems better calculated to 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...
Last evening the committee on the Lerter cup series met the captains of several of last year's scrub teams and discussed plans for this year. Nothing final was decided but it is probable that the schedule system will be in general much the same as last year. It is also probable that some advantage will be given to the teams that made a good showing last year in order so far as possible to make it a permanent custom for scrub teams to hold together from year to year...
...that while it is easy to understand why the Corporation should object to discussion about lands remote from the present property, it can do no harm to suggest such approaches as it might be expected the public spirit of the city would supply as a part of their park system, or to form conjectures as to the improvement of the present grounds, if contiguous property, that everybody knows the college would gladly own, were obtained...