Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...spite of the result of the triangular debate, for which the Harvard teams deserve hearty praise, there is no question that public speaking in the University is at a low ebb. This is due to a lack of support, which in turn results form a natural hesitancy to undertake the laborious and technical preparation of a difficult question with no assurance of participating in a contest commanding anything like widespread collegiate interest or support. Under the present system, with a debating association existing simply to train two intercollegiate teams, a general lack of interest in debating is inevitable...
There are at present ten organizations interested in some form of public speaking. And these debating and political clubs lose in effectiveness because they have many members in common, or else stagnate individually because they represent only an isolated view of some absorbing question. Informal debates among these club members on topics of common interest should enable them to reach conclusions of moment and should prove stimulating to each organization engaged...
...here in America, and especially in New York, in nine cases out of ten, one cannot get a civil answer to a civil question. In Europe the reverse is the rule and often mere strangers will go quite out of their way to do what to us would seem an extraordinary act of courtesy...
...forced to admiration of the debating teams that can argue opposite sides of the same question and make both appear right to learned judges. It is a triumph of argumentation, which would be complete except that one is now left in doubt as to whether an income tax is right or wrong. Certainly the outcome shows that the Harvard teams had mastered the subject, and presented it effectively...
HARVARD-PRINCETON DEBATE Sixteenth Annual Debate. Singing by the Glee Club. Sanders Theatre, S. P. M. Question: "Resolved, That the Federal Government should have the power to impose an income tax, not apportioned among the States according to population." Applications for tickets should be addressed to Mr. G. L. Harding, Hollis 20, and should contain a stamped and addressed envelope. Members of the University will be allowed one ticket each. Tickets for the public and extra tickets for members of the University will be sold at twenty-five cents each. Extra tickets are on sale at the two stores...