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...effort is being spared at Yale to secure the very best men in the college to represent the Yale Union in the next joint debate with Harvard. This means that the same effort must be made here if Harvard is to make a creditable showing in the debate. We cannot afford to make a poor showing at New Haven. The credit of Harvard is as much at stake in this do bate as in any of the other intercollegiate contests, athletic or otherwise. The Harvard Union announces this morning +++ time for the contest which is to determine who Harvard...
...society also wishes to express its hearty appreciation of the earnest and effective help which Mr. Hayes contributed towards making the joint debate a success by training the speakers...
...that of the New York and London Societies. The officers chosen were Franklin M. Head, president; Mrs. Charles Henrotin, vice-president; Franklin Mac Veagh Yale '62 treasurer, and C. N. Zeublin, Yale '89, L. S., secretary. The president and two members of the faculty of each institution form the joint university board. The society is open to any one on the payment annually of five dollars. Eighty-five lecture courses, each consist of six lectures, and sixty lecturers have been announced in a recently issued circular. The society intends to establish extension centres in Chicago and at other points...
After the joint debate on Thursday evening the Yale and Harvard delegates held a conference about the second debate, which is to be held in New Haven on March 25th. It was agreed that the subject should be Resolved, That a college education unfits a man for business. Harvard has the affirmative and there are to be three speakers, each of whom will have fifteen minutes. The other debates have of course not yet been decided upon...
...debate was certainly a gratifying success. The interest which it aroused was far greater than even the most sanguine expected. It is to be hoped that this awakened interest marks a return of our enthusiasm for the long neglected art of public speaking, and that the joint debates of this year are only the beginning of an annual series. The friends of the two universities have long desired some such contest. It is well that there be a rivalry on this side of the college life as well as in athletics; that there be the same sort of stimulus...