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Debating at Harvard has undergone such rapid changes during the past three years that few of the features which existed in the old system are still extant. At the beginning of this period there was no University Debating Club--but there were two rival organizations, the Harvard Union and the Forum, which elected their members from all the different classes. But interest in these clubs began to flag, and as the result of causes which had been at work for several years, the two were combined in the spring of 1898, into a University Debating Club. Debates were carried...
...Pond, by a score of 3 to 1. As in the first game, neither team was ahead at the end of the regular two halves and it was necessary to play a third half. The game was closed when two more goals were made by the Seniors in rapid succession. The line-up of the teams was as follows: 1900--Clement, Drinkwater, George, Parker, forwards; Farrington, coverpoint; Carpenter, point; Goodridge, goal. 1901--Milne, Hart, Coolidge, forwards; Evans, coverpoint; Coyle, point; Hyde, goal...
Under the direction of Mr. Dohs twenty-five candidates are practicing daily for the gymnastic team. Of the five specialties, the most rapid progress is being made in tumbling. Immediately after the Christmas recess a team will be picked to take part in the dual exhibition with the University of Pennsylvania which will be held in Philadelphia about January 20. Following this there will be a dual contest between Harvard and Yale which will be held in Cambridge early in February. Columbia University has invited the team to take part in a dual contest at the opening...
...course on the "History of Heroditus" will be given by Dr. Botsford. Assistant Professors Morgan and Marsh will give a course on the "Works of Virgil with Studies of his Sources and Influence on the Literature of the Renaissance." Dr. Babbit will give a new course on "Rapid Reading of Homer's Iliad": Assistant Professor Morgan will give one on "The Early Career of Cicero"; Dr. Manning, on "Studies in the Life and Times of Ovid"; Professor Smith, an "Introduction to Latin Epigraphy"; Professor Greenough, an "Exposition of Roman Philosophy"; Assistant Professor Parker, on "Social Movements in the First Century...
...general practice has been to appoint a small number of principal disputants for each occasion,- two, as a rule,- and the attendance has not been sufficient to ensure an audience worth addressing. This difficulty can be obviated to some degree by uniting all the available forces, and an equally rapid rotation of speakers may be maintained by appointing four speakers for each debate...