Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Alger-Klein, Upper Dane...
Adams-Greene, Upper Mass...
Stevens-Young, Upper Dane...
Adams-Harlow, Upper Mass...
...danger of such a system is that it is likely to be carried too far, and popularize debating to an inadvisable extent. If the system could be limited to the two upper classes however, it would seem that the University Debating Club and the two courses could exert an "austere" enough influence to prevent an epidemic of informal discussion, and there seems little doubt but that such discussion would do much toward making debating attractive, and making something in common between the men who see each other a couple of hours a week in English 30 or English...