Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last Princeton speaker was Matthew Lowrie. He was anxious to emphasize his previous assertion that the negative were debating facts, not theories. The whole argument of the affirmative on the Canadian question, he said, was based on the assertion that there is no systematic investigation. We say that there is such an investigation and that the law gives the power to strengthen it whenever it is deemed necessary...
Parke's clear-cut and deliberate arguments were the most convincing of those offered by the Harvard men. The best speech as to form was made by S. B. Rosenthal '98 in his opening arguments for Harvard. For Princeton the most effective speaker was R. D. Dripps, whose delivery was free from the indirect and rather too assertive mannerisms of the other...
...Parke '98, the second speaker for Harvard, said in part; The eensus of 1890 shows that a large part of the recent immigration from Southern Europe, which is mostly illiterate, lacking in funds, and unskilled, settles near the Atlantic seaboard, and congests unduly in our cities. According to the great slum report, from 77 to 95 per cent of the slum population of our great cities is foreign. From three to seventy times as many of the foreigners in the slums are, however, from Southern as from Northern Europe...
...college at the Boston Latin School where he was prominent in military drill and in his studies. At graduation he won a Franklin medal for good scholarship. In his Freshman year he was alternate on the team which defeated the Yale Freshmen. Last year he was a regular speaker in the Harvard-Princeton debate, which Harvard won, and he also took part in several interclub debates. He was formerly secretary of the Harvard Union and is now a member of the University Debating Club. White is the only one of Harvard's three regular speakers who has been...
Raymond Tasker Parke '98 of Lynn, Harvard's second speaker, prepared at the Lynn Classical High School. His debating experience has been limited to work in the Harvard Union and the debating courses, English 30 and English 6. He is a Phi Beta Kappa man and a member of the University Debating Club...