Word: system
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...free from debt and has a surplus on hand. A competent coach will be on hand this afternoon to take charge of the work, and there is no reason why the Newell club should not this year play its full part in carrying out the two-club system which was so successful last year...
Last evening's services provided the opportunity for the public to see the improvements made in the interior finish and decorations of the Chapel during the summer. Electric lights have been put in and a new ventilating system keeps the building filled with fresh air. The walls and ceiling have been re-painted and the organ -- formerly worked by hand power--now has an electric bellows. The cost of these improvements was about...
...Tuesday's issue we discussed the applicability of the Yale "Wigwam" debating system to the Junior and Senior classes at Harvard, and came to the conclusion that, in spite of the ground covered by courses of instruction and the University Debating Club, there was yet room for informal organizations of a character intended rather to popularize than to give training in, debate...
...frame-work of Harvard's debating system as it now stands, seems effective. All that is needed is some method to make interest in it general, and this Yale system presents itself as a possibility. How to apply it is then the question...
...history of Freshman and Sophomore clubs has proved that class clubs can be successful on a formal basis, their equal success on an informal and social, seems improbable. They are too large and the interests of their individual members are too varied. The possibility of establishing such a system is then in the hands of individual undergraduates. At Yale it is applied only among the best debaters, there being but twenty members of each "camp." What we would propose at Harvard is the organization in the Junior and Senior classes of little independent "camps," which could meet separately...