Word: triangulars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pasteur Medal, and the Philips Memorial Scholarship are also given. The methods and principles of debating at Harvard and other universities are treated at length and the authors show why the work has been so successful. Mr. Stone '93, in his introduction, writes a description of the triangular debating arrangement between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton and an instructive criticism from the view-point of a judge. His comments upon the contests themselves and his instructions to judges are interesting and useful...
...debating team, meeting in its only intercollegiate contest two strictly undergraduate teams, may include three graduates. This is not an equal basis of competition. For one year it is justifiable, since the regulations of the triumvirate are going through a period of readjustment; but for the future, if the triangular contest is to continue, debating at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton should be placed on a common footing. Perhaps it should be a footing of graduate eligibility perhaps of undergraduate...
...must be undergraduates. For the other positions competition is open on equal terms to all members of the University. Those retained in the preliminary trials will compete in a semi-final elimination round on February 20. The final trials will be held on February 28, four weeks before the triangular debate with Princeton and Yale. The best undergraduate speaker at the final trials will be awarded the annual Coolidge debating prize...
...save the expense and inconvenience of the annual conference, the managements of the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton teams have agreed to choose the subjects for the triangular debates by correspondence. In drawing lots for first choice, the Yale authorities secured the right to name the subject next year, the exact wording of the question to be determined by Princeton. The following year Harvard will choose the subject, and in 1917 Harvard will have the right to revise the question chosen by Princeton. The only necessary conference under the new plan will be a triennial meeting merely to renew the terms...
...Haven, Conn., January 27, 1913.--The crew management of the University has arranged a triangular race to be rowed with Cornell and Princeton over a two-mile course at Ithaca, May 23. Eighty men from the classes of 1917S. and 1916 reported at the first meeting of the Freshman crew candidates on Monday. Captain Denegre introduced Mr. Richard Armstrong, the new supervisor of rowing, who spoke on what was expected of the Freshmen. The average weight of the men who reported is 159 pounds, and the average height 5 feet, 10 1-2 inches...