Word: actions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Under the new system, a broader topic will be chosen than was possible before, and men may treat it as they see fit. There will be no arbitrary allotment of affirmative and negative, no attempt at concerted action. This will leave greater room for individual effort, and no previous schooling in debating will be necessary. Definitions, statistics, and citations will be less in evidence, while general intelligence and persuasive power will be of greater value than the ability to amass facts and draw fine distinctions...
...time of the action of the play is the period of the Dreyfus trial. The first act takes place in Wolfstamm's estate near an Austrian watering place; the second and third acts are laid in Hartwell's office, adjoining Convention Hall; the last act shows Hartwell's summer house. The final cast is as follows: Raymond Hartwell, R. M. Middlemass '09 Rabbi Elchanon, D. Gardner 2L. Albert Gregor, O. Lyding '09 Sir James Wingate, E. A. Bemis '11 Von Schlegel, J. M. Longyear '10 Wolfstamm, A. J. Bloom '11 Schamberg, A. Gregg '11 Liefert, W. White '10 Ussishkof...
...find moral beauty in all excellence. He loved art and literature, and he had a large faith that both could be made to lend their concurrent influence not only to refinement and delight, but also to dignity of life and to the formation of lofty standards of thought and action. He inculcated the virtue of reverence. He awakened and developed ideals in his pupils, he did not impose them from without. His presence lighted up the lower levels of life and in it all seemed to be welded into a community of higher resolve. He sought for truth and beauty...
...Lawrence Scientific School who, at the end of the Christmas or Spring recess, fails to register at the time set for that purpose, may be required to pay to the Bursar a fee of $5 before being permitted to register. Payment of this fee does not preclude action by either of the administrative boards in the cases of students who register late. Students in good standing, living at a very considerable distance, who will be granted an extension of time at the beginning of the recess, may learn the exact amount by petitioning the recorder. No other students are excused...
...announcement is made on another page that the University band will not be taken to New Haven as in former years. This action, we have been given to understand, has not been taken because of the inferiority of the band to other years. Quite the contrary is true. There has been a general feeling that this year's band is somewhat more of a band than we have had in former years. The decision seems to have been made, however, not on the basis of a comparison with other years, but through the desire to have a thoroughly capable...