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Joseph Wm. Park made the last of Princeton's first speeches. He devoted his speech to affirmative argument, leaving his rebuttal till the second speech. He drew analogies from European cities which have property qualifications and better city government. He put the question to a test of expedience...
...editorial upon the football question advances the argument, by no means novel, that football keeps its followers from "going to the devil." If the picture of that personage drawn for us by C. A. Pierce '96 in "Mephistopheles, Gentleman," is an accurate one we doubt if even the charms of football will prevent any of us from seeking his acquaintance, for he is a "gentleman" par excellence. The story displays ingenuity and imagination of no mean order...
...this, two reasons are assigned: first, that the engravings are of most use where they are now; and second, that their accommodation in the Fogg Museum would necessitate the sacrifice of too much of the very limited space at disposal in that building. The strength of the first argument might well be doubted, as indeed might that of the second in view of Harvard's small possessions in the shape of works of art. But there is sufficient truth in the assertion of lack of space to force on our attention once more the deplorable failure of the Fogg Museum...
...briefly sketched the present method of electing senators and its advantages. He showed how it was from its very method of election that the Senate gains its effectiveness as a check on legislation. F. D. Pollak '96 of the Wendell Phillips Club opened for the negative. He based his argument upon the claim that at present senators are chosen for their political availability, whereas, under the proposed system, the fitness of the candidate would be the test...
...speaking of the evening ended with the concluding argument of F. D. Pollak, who spoke with much force and discrimination, his arguments being the most conclusive of any of the debaters. All four of the principal disputants deserve great credit for their excellent-conduct of the debate...