Word: upon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Owing to several misunderstandings that have occurred in the past it was voted to instruct the judges to give their decision upon the merits of the discussion alone regardless of the relative strength of the two sides of the question. Each of the six speakers shall have twelve minutes for his first speech and five minutes for rebuttal. These arrangements were agreed to unanimously by the members of the conference...
...future the question for the debate shall be proposed seven weeks before the date upon which the debate is to occur and the university choosing the side shall announce its decision five weeks before the same date. The list of judges shall contain not less than twenty names and must be proposed at least six weeks before the debate and the university to which the list is sent shall return it within one week with the names to which it objects stricken out. No man shall act as judge at any intercollegiate debate who is a graduate of either...
There were two other points upon which, after long discussion, the delegates were unable to agree. It was the opinion of the Harvard and Princeton representatives that assistance from members of the faculty and persons outside the university should be limited to the giving of information, while the Yale delegates did not believe that criticism of practice debates by members of the faculty was any more objectionable. The delegates agreed, however, that there was a possibility of abuse in faculty coaching that should be guarded against...
...June Atlantic begins with another installment of the letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, edited by George Birbeck Hill. This installment contains the letters for 1855. Striking features in this issue are an article upon The Politician and the Public School, by Mr. G. L. Jones, Superintendent of Schools, Cleveland, Ohio; Restriction of Immigration, by President Francis A. Walker; and Lord Howe's Commission to Pacify the Colonies, an important historical contribution, by Paul Leicester Ford, embodying a hitherto unpublished manuscript...
Will you permit me through your columns to call attention to a Harvard custom which seems to me more honored in the breach than in the observance. I allude to the stamping by the students in Memorial Hall upon the slightest provocation. This evening a lady and gentleman entered the gallery, and the latter, happening to have his hat on, was greeted by a loud burst of stamping almost before he had reached the top of the staircase. He at once left the gallery. A similar incident took place a day or two ago in the case of two elderly...