Word: trials
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lage of Columbia has been appointed to confer with the fencing committee of the New York Athletic Club in order to devise a plan to make a quicker decision possible. It was also voted that other colleges should be eligible for election to the Association after having teams on trial for a period of two years, during which they could compete in the intercollegiate tournaments and be eligible for the championship...
...first trials to select the team to debate against Yale will be held this evening at 7 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. Each speaker will be allowed five minutes to talk on other side of the question: "Resolved, That a commission be given power to fix railroad rates." From twelve to fifteen men will be retained for further trial. Everyone who intends to speak must hand in his name to Perkins 34 before 12 o'clock, so that the order of speaking, to be determined, by lot, may be posted in Gore Hall by 1 o'clock...
...trials to select the Harvard team, open to all men in the University, will be held on the evenings of Wednesday, March 29, Saturday, April 1, and Wednesday, April 5, in the New Lecture Hall. At the first trial each man will be allowed to speak five minutes, and from twelve to fifteen men will be retained. At the second trial each man will allowed ten minutes, and six men will be retained. These six men will be divided by lot into two teams, which, at the final trial, will conduct a regular debate with main speeches of twelve minutes...
Rowing work during the week has consisted mainly of practice in short stretches on the river. The University squad has been divided into three trial eights, which have been put into training and are now rowing regularly in shells with individual instruction from Coach Wray. From the trial eights, which will have a short race in about a week, two crews will he retained to compose the University squad...
...Bonaparte spoke yesterday afternoon in the Fogg Lecture Room under the auspices of the Law Practice Association on "Incidents of Trial Practice." He made several suggestions of value to young lawyers, illustrating his remarks with anecdotes from his own experience...