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...must be borne in mind that the negative is not called upon to defend any particular regime. It believes that every college should maintain that system which is best qualified to meet its special needs. The affirmative, on the other hand, must prove that the revolutionary system which it defends is better than any other available method of education for all American colleges...
...March 3 Yale completed her schedule in the intercollegiate basketball series, and closed the season in second place. Although at one time the team had some chance of winning the championship, its defeat by Columbia on March 1 by the score of 24 to 21 allowed its opponent to maintain the lead and finish i first place. The game was without doubt the most exciting match ever played on the Yale floor, as Yale held the lead at the end of the first half, 13 to 11. On Friday the university team lost in the last game of the season...
Mohammedanism was still another factor responsible for the rupture of the Mediterranean empire. The people of Asia hated emperors who were always trying to maintain the balance between the Orient and the Occident; they hated Christianity because they had a horror of the metaphysical Trinity as being an inhuman conception...
...Lecture Hall. The question submitted by the Seniors, is: "Resolved, That it should be the policy of the United States not to hold territory permanently, unless with the purpose that it shall ultimately enjoy statehood." W. H. Davis, W. O. Hubbard and W. Tyng, the Senior team, will maintain the affirmative, and M. Kabatchnick, H. A. Nye and a. N. Holcombe, for the Juniors, will support the negative. A. A. Ballantine 1L., R. L. Scales 1L, and F. W. Catlett 1L. will act as judges. E. Root, Jr., 2L. will preside...
...Scientific School alone. There is a common but mistaken idea that the buying of an H. A. A. ticket is a contribution to support athletics, when, in reality, it is nothing but a cheap form of admission to the various sports. The sums raised among the undergraduates to maintain all the University teams do not greatly exceed what was subscribed by the College to keep up the crew alone twenty years ago, at a half as large as at present and represented far less wealth. In those days no team was self-supporting--all had to depend upon voluntary subscriptions...