Word: trials
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University team will be chosen after a series of three trials, which will be open to students in all departments of the University. At the first trial on next Tuesday evening, October 30, each speaker will be allowed five minutes to argue either the affirmative or negative of the subject for debate; and as a result of these speeches, from twelve to sixteen men will be retained. These men will deliver 10-minute speeches on the question at the second trial, on November 2, when the six men who will constitute the first and second teams will be chosen...
Next Tuesday afternoon a squad, composed of all the middle and long distance runners who care to compete, will run a five-mile trial on the Stadium track. Several of the regular cross-country runners will set the pace, and all who run the distance under thirty minutes will be retained for the cross-country squad...
...Three trials will be held to select a team to represent the University in debate against Yale on December 7. At the first trial on Tuesday, October 30, speakers will be allowed five minutes, and ten to sixteen men will be retained. The speeches at the second trial on November 2 will be ten minutes in length, six men being retained. These will be divided by lot into teams of three men each, which will debate on November 6 to determine the final make-up of the team. At this trial each man will speak twelve minutes, and five minutes...
...trial eights were on the river yesterday, and were coached from the "John Harvard" by Captain Bacon, and by Coach Wray, who has just returned from England. Both crews rowed up-stream to the Brighton bridge. Nearly all of the dormitory crews were also on the water. Coach Vail followed the Dunster and Hampden-Beck-Fairfax crews in the "Veritas." Both showed improved strength, but their form is still ragged. The Westmorly crew is at present making the best showing...
...prizes of equal amount will be awarded, one at each of the series of trial debates for the selection of Harvard's representatives in the intercollegiate debates with Yale and Princeton. The prize is awarded to the member of the team judged to have done the best work throughout the trials...