Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Audience To Vote...
Contrary to the usual custom there will be no judges for the contest. A vote of the audience will determine which side of the question has been best presented and argued by the debaters. This is known as the English system of judging and although employed in the recent Harvard-Cambridge debate this will be the first time Harvard has used it in competing with an American university...
...December 21, 1926, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences passed the vote submitted to them by the Department of English approving the abolition of the present anticipatory examination in English A. As a substitute for this examination, candidates for admission to Harvard College passing the Comprehensive paper in English with a grade of 70 percent or higher will be relieved from the prescribed work in English A. This change will take effect this spring...
...Germany's "secret army" have, however, been rather thoroughly aired at a series of military trials. War Minister Gessler has been shown to have no great secret resources at his disposal; but to have used what he had for reactionary ends. This antagonized the Socialists, who threw their vote against the Cabinet last week. The Nationalists, disgruntled at Herr Gessler's half-hearted militarism, voted with their enemies the Socialists to oust the Marx Cabinet. This temporary "union of enemies," which flung the cabinet out 249 to 171, was, of course, partly due to the long standing resentment...
...weeks before college holidays. Wranglers from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and from the University of Sydney (Australia), have been touring the country with enterprise unprecedented. At Iowa State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts (Ames, Iowa), the three Australians, graduates all, sounded more effective than their hosts, winning an affirmative vote on "Resolved: That the Press exerts a harmful influence upon the community." At Boston College, the Cambridge men lost, but won from George Washington University (Washington, D. C.), on the proposition that that Government had intruded too far upon the rights of individuals. The Oxford wranglers, all facetious...