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...fundamental principles of the Department differ to some extent from those of most architectural schools in this country, with the possible exception of Columbia, in laying stress primarily on the importance of an accurate and thorough knowledge of the history of art as an essential foundation for work in design, and with this end the Department has the great advantage of being closely allied to the Department of Fine Arts in Harvard College. In addition to the courses offered by the College on the history of art those in the Department occupy three years. The practical training upon which...
...article which appears this morning concerning an effort at Yale to popularize debating by laying stress upon the social side of meetings for debate is suggestive...
...like Mr. Warren in this morning's CRIMSON, have spoken up honestly, acknowledged our defeat, and sought the cause in our own defects. But I have also heard many who have tried in one way or another to excuse the result. There has been a tendency to lay great stress on the superior form of the Harvard speakers, on the better massing of their argument, and their more clever handling of evidence, and to ascribe their defeat to incomprehensible blindness on the part of the judges or even to some "trick" of the other side. Is not all this rather...
...certainly did themselves much credit in the face of the fact that the judges might possibly have been influenced, though not prejudiced, in favoring the side of the question most evidently the right and just one. Possibly the mistake made by the Pennsylvania debaters consisted in placing too much stress upon oratorical expression and not enough upon the matter of the argument...
Particular stress was laid by the speaker on the importance of the club to the church. A firm and closely related organization was needed, the speaker said, to place the tenets of the Catholic religion properly before the student body. After this appeal for consistent effort a short sketch of the work accomplished during the last quarter century in the religious life of the country was given and the address closed with an outline of what might be hoped for during the coming years...