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Princeton held a competitive debate last evening to select three speakers for the Yale - Princeton debate on March 15th...
...gratifying to notice that the attempt to establish a thoroughly representative debating society at Harvard is receiving the hearty encouragement of certain members of the Faculty. The Harvard Union is fortunate in having Professor Shaler to preside at the coming debate. The committee of judges to select the best twelve speakers will be composed largely of faculty members and that a perfectly fair decision will be given goes without saying. The members of the old Union interested in the reorganization of the society have gone about their work with good judgment and commendable fairness. There is every reason to believe...
...carry out this idea, it was moved and carried that, at the competitive debate to select speakers to meet Yale, the judges select the best twelve men, the first three to debate with Yale, the whole twelve to form the nucleus of the new society. In addition those members who spoke in the last Yale debate will also be charter-members...
Some of us build more castles in the air than there is room for on the earth, and from these we must learn to select those deals which are worthy and beautiful. The selection must be made with great care; for no one will, after a mature deliberation, choose an unworthy idea. It is the lack of thought, the lack of careful planning, which leaves one without any high conceptions and makes ones life a failure...
...under direction of six Trustees of the Phillips Brooks Memorial, of whom no more than two shall at any time belong to the same religious denomination. Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, Professor George H. Palmer and Robert Treat Paine, Esq. have been requested to act in this capacity and to select by unanimous choice their three associates. These Trustees will fill all vacancies in their number, and have full discretion to arrange and provide for the perpetual, non-sectarian administration and care of this charity. Bishop Brooks' classmates propose to give at least one tenth of this fund. They begin...