Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sixth annual Harvard-Princeton debate will take place in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. The question will be: "Resolved, That England's claims in her controversy with the Transvaal are justifiable." The question was selected by Harvard, and Princeton having the choice of sides, decided to defend the negative. The order of the Harvard speakers will be E. Mayer '00, R. C. Bruce '02 and W. Morse '00, for both first speeches and rebuttals...
...exhausted with the work of preparation, is too ill to speak tonight and his place will be taken by Mayer. This is the first time in the history of intercollegiate debating that an alternate has spoken in place of a regular member of a team. The order of the Princeton speakers will be Weston, Hill and Jones, and in the rebuttal, Hill, Jones and Weston. Each speaker will be given twelve minutes for his first speech and five for his rebuttal...
...judges will be Mr. Andrew P. Wiswell, Judge of the Supreme Court of Maine; Mr. Simeon Baldwin, Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, and Professor Chas. H. Hull, of the Department of Economics of Cornell University. The Princeton alternates are S. B. Scott '00, J. B. Kelly '00 and B. H. Hunsberger...
...informal dinner will be given in the Colonial Club at 6 tonight to the presicing officer of the debate, the judges, to the three entertainers of the judges, Professors Ames, Baker and Taussig, to Princeton's representatives, Professor Bliss Perry and J. B. Kelly, and to Harvard's representatives, coach R. C. Ringwalt '95 and R. C. Bolling '00. The members of the teams will not attend the dinner. If the Princeton men remain in Boston over Saturday they will be further entertained by members of the University Debating Club...
...Freshman debating team which defeated Yale. Morse spent the winter of '96-'97 in Philadelphia doing newspaper work. In the fall of '97 he re-entered Harvard and made the University debating team which lost to Yale at New Haven in December. He was on the team which defeated Princeton last April, and was awarded the Coolidge Debating Prize for his work in the trials for that debate...