Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Meanwhile the tendency to form class clubs had been growing. As early as 1894, the class of '98 had formed the first Freshman Debating Club, and in the next two years the only two Freshman debates with Yale were held. The practice was then discontinued by the Faculty, on the...
This rapid growth of class debating caused a falling off of interest in the University Club, and rendered its existence unneccessary, so at the beginning of the present year the club was changed to a purely executive body, intended to supervise class and intercollegiate debates, and to provide coaches and...
The original Senior Cabinet limited its membership to about thirty-five men and planned to confine its work to extemporaneous speaking. The Junior Wranglers numbered fifty-five, the Sophomores forty-seven, and the Freshmen fifty-eight men. This year the membership of the Senior Wranglers is unrestricted and numbers forty...
This marked increase in interest and the present flourishing conditions of debating are due in part to the introduction of the "camp system", which had previously worked successfully at Yale, and partly to the number of new prizes and rewards. The new system is used at present by all but...
This year the new custom was introduced, of arranging for each class a debate with some outside organization, in addition to the regular club debates. During the first week after the mid-years, a meeting will be held at which the Senior and Freshman teams who won the debates last...