Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...response to an invitation from the Union League Club of Chicago, H. E. Addison '96 has been appointed represent Harvard at a Washington's Birthday celebration to be held in Chicago...
Debating in Princeton has always aroused a great amount of interest. The Lynde debate at commencemet and the '76 Prize Debate on Washington's Birthday are well attended and vigorously contested. However, the interest has never before reached the height that it did in the last three weeks. The men who represented the college in the debate with Yale on last Friday were among the very best thinkers and speakers in the college, and the undergraduates and all, notwithstanding the admitted fact that Princeton had the worst side of the question, had the greatest confidence in the ability...
Ralph Barton Perry '96, of New York City, prepared for college at the Franklin School, of Germantown, Pa. In freshman year he won in Whig Hall first prize in debate and second in essay. In sophomore year he was Washington's Birthday debater from his class. Junior year he won first prize in essay in hall, and this year second in the senior oratorical contest...
...Whig Hall, and in junior year he won second prize in general inter-class debate in hall and first in extempore speaking. Last year he was one of the contestants on the preliminary Harvard debate, won one of the Junior Orator medals and the Lit. prize for Washington's Birthday Oration. He is the president of the Civil Service Reform Club, and also one of the Baird candidates...
...subject for the third annual debate between the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University will be: "Resolved, That the Federal Government should provide by public taxation for the establishment and maintenance of a National University at Washington." The debate will be held at Ithaca Washington's Birthday...