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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...game today the two strongest teams of the country will play to decide the championship of the year. Rarely have Harvard and Yale come through the season with clearer titles to supremacy. Neither team has been so hard pressed in any game that it has been obliged to use its full resources of strategy; consequently all the variations of modern football that can be depended on to gain ground will be used today. For these reasons, and for the interest that Harvard-Yale contests always have, it should be the best game of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD VERSUS YALE. | 11/20/1909 | See Source »

...annual debate. The Yale team, which supported the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, That it should be the policy of the United States not to hold territory permanently unless with the purpose that it ultimately enjoy statehood," surpassed its opponents in both oratory and argument and presented a much clearer and better connected case. Both teams were inclined, however, to be somewhat flippant. The judges, Professor John Bassett Moore, LL.D., of Columbia University, Hon. Lucas F. C. Graven, Governor of Rhode Island, and Mr. A. Maurice Low, the Washington correspondent, were unanimous in their decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Defeated Princeton in Debate. | 12/10/1904 | See Source »

...Charles S. Peirce '59 will deliver his supplementary lecture on "Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking," under the auspices of the Department of Philosophy, in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock tonight. Mr. Peirce will give a summary of his previous lectures and will put in clearer light the relation of the views maintained to the general doctrine of pragmatism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture by Mr. Peirce. | 5/14/1903 | See Source »

...Department of Philosophy on "Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking." The lecture will take place next Thursday in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock and will be open to the public. Mr. Peirce will give a summary of his previous lectures and will put in clearer light the relation of the views maintained to the general doctrine of pragmatism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Lectures by Mr. Peirce. | 5/11/1903 | See Source »

EXETER, N. H., May 8.--The fourth annual Freshman-Exeter debate, held this evening in the Academy Chapel at Exeter, was won by the Freshmen. The debate was closely contested and was a creditable victory for the Freshmen, who had the clearer presentation and thus gained a slight advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Win Exeter Debate. | 5/9/1903 | See Source »

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