Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battles through the monasteries on the number of angles who could dance on the point of a needle or the physical relation of Hell to Heaven the proposed canonization of a pious son of he Church always required the appointment of a "devil's advocate" to take up the verbal cudgels for the unpopular side of the argument. This until the connotation changes, will be much the position of the Conservative wing of the newly formed Harvard Debating Union. The present generation shied at the word conservative as a skittish horse from a piece of newspaper, and with as much...
...accommodate those who wish to hear the debate between the University and Oxford teams on the League of Nations in Symphony Hall next Monday night, it will be necessary to place seats on the stage. A lively and brilliant verbal contest is anticipated, and it is evident that public interest in debating has not lessened since the famous clash between Senator H. C. Lodge '71 and President Lowell on the same subject two years...
...fair weather with light westerly winds and a rising temperature. Hence we are in a quandary. What shall be the vein of the annual Class Day editorial? Shall it be wet humor or dry humor, shall we indulge in a little mud-slinging or merely raise a cloud of verbal dust? A question which our editorial minds, after three days' holiday, refused to answer. So we put on our raincoats and departed, leaving it to the office boy to decide which of the following editorials to pull from the pigeon hold marked "Good Any Time...
...startling statement is distinctly necessary. In perfection of photographs and make-up, the record of this year's book has rarely, if ever, been equalled; book has rarely, if ever, been equalled; but--the drawings are nothing less than horrible--with one or two exceptions, and no amount of verbal whitewash would suffice to hide the fact. Such frankness may not be pleasant, but it is at least justified by the facts...
...candidate whose record had been composed of fifty percent D's was given Distinction because of exceptional work in his general examination, while another whose grades were of the highest failed to pass. Marks will mean something only when they cease to be measured by the quantity of verbal backwater from lectures and text-books given in the blue-books. Qualitative utilization of knowledge must go hand in hand with the ability to assimilate facts...