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Editorial
During this week will be held the trials to choose speakers for the two interclass debates; and that these debates may be successful it is imperative that a large number of men shall enter the competition....
We do not realize how much meaning is given to the phrase "Yale brawn, Harvard brains," by victories in debate, but by these victories many men are attracted to Harvard who never would have come here otherwise. Our intercollegiate debates are studied carefully and requests continually come for verbatim reports of the cases presented....
To almost all men, whatever their intended profession, the ability to think on the platform and to say what one thinks in a clear and logical manner will be invaluable and this ability can be most naturally and most easily gained by taking advantage of every opportunity to speak while at College....
--Feb. 14, 1901
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