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...Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Question: Resolved, "That Russian Nihilism is justifiable." Books of reference reserved in Alcove 5 in the library...
...FRIDAY.Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. *** Question: Resolved, "That Russian Nihilism is justifiable." (Books of reference reserved in Alcove 5 in the library...
...some comment. He was editor-in-chief of the "American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge." The triennial catalogues since 1840 have been edited by him, and he had charge of the publication of the annual catalogues from 1850 to 1870. He was also author of the "History of Union, Maine," and of three volumes of biographical sketches of Harvard graduates. In 1856, Bowdoin College honored him with the degree of A. M., as a testimonial of appreciation of his literary services...
...writing of the Union we desire to criticise a kind of speaking which is frequently heard at the debates. It is evident that many men carefully prepare their five-minutes speeches, commit them to memory, and then declaim them. To our mind a debating society is not the place for declamation; but aside from that, the method is very ineffective, and ridicule oftener than approbation is manifested by the listeners. An assembly usually greatly prefers to hear a speaker who hesitates and stumbles in his remarks, provided they are extemporaneous, than one who fires off at short range a carefully...
Students who desire to be considered candidates for membership in the Harvard Union are reminded that only one more meeting of the society will be held before the semi-annual election. The article of the constitution relating to membership is as follows:- "Any member of the University who shall have spoken in the debates of the society and shall have been proposed by the Executive Committee, shall be eligible to election as a member. "A four-fifths (4-5) vote of the members present taken by ballot shall constitute an election. Upon the payment of an initiation...