Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that a more definite agreement be reached upon several important points. Last year, for example, the time of preparation for debate was extended from six to eight weeks. In addition to deciding whether that change shall be permanent, the conference will probably fix the dates of the three debates, discuss the idea of limiting competition to undergraduate or certain schools, and re-consider the question of Faculty coaching. There also seems to be a general sentiment in all three universities that a different system of judging should be established to the extent that judges be given certain definite instructions, printed...
...Eliot spoke in part as follows: War for the private soldier or sailor is at best a dull, coarse, squalid business It can not have any attraction for you, and yet the question-Shall I volunteer?- may become a pressing one within a few weeks or months. I shall discuss that question from the student's point of view...
...Football Rules Committee met at the University Athletic Club in New York on Saturday. This will probably be the last meeting for this year. The committee was originally called together for the colleges by the University Athletic Club to discuss proposed changes in football playing rules. No really radical alterations have been made but the rules have been revised and made more definite. A copy of them, as at present prepared, will be taken to each college by its member of the committee, and the final vote will be taken without any further meetings of the committee...
...eighth and last lecture in the course on "English Novelists" will be given at eight o'clock this evening, in Sever 11. The subject will be George Eliot. After brief comment on the author's life, Mr. Copeland will discuss her genius for literature, and the ways in which it was helped and hindered by her ethical enthusiasms and the scientific tendencies of the time...
...office, and has the power to b eas arbitrary as he pleases, even to the extent of refusing to accept the advice of the coach. Such is his privilege, and to accept or relinquish it is his own affair. Any man who is in a position to discuss Goodrich's resignation, must appreciate that with him alone lay the option of his withdrawal...