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Last evening, in the Fogg Art Museum, the Freshman speakers defeated Yale in a contest of unusual merit and interest. The audience was very enthusiastic. As the speakers went on the platform they were received with rousing cheers for Yale and Harvard, and each man was applauded loudly before and after his speech. After the result was announced, the greatest enthusiasm was shown and the speakers were carried off the platform...
Thirteen men, who were chosen at the preliminary competition last Saturday, spoke. The contest was unusually close and interesting and the judges were out for over half and hour before they announced that first prizes had been awarded to Clifford Fyffe Greegg '96, and Frank Rudolph Steward '96, and second prizes to Raphael Clarke Thomas '96, Arthur Cheney Train '96, and Henry Barrett Huntington...
...prepared for Harvard at Phillips Academy, Andover, where he did considerable speaking, both in debating and in other ways. He was one of the speakers in the annual joint debate of last year between the Forum and the Philomathean Debating Club of Andover, and also on the Means Prize Contest and the Draper Prize Contest. He is now president of the Harvard Freshman Debating Club and a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Forum...
...wish the Freshmen success in their debate with Yale this evening. This debate with Yale is the most important contest of the year for Ninety-nine. A victory in baseball or even a victory in beating at Poughkeepsie will not bring so much credit to the class as the defeat of the Yale freshmen tonight. We feel great confidence in the men who to a certain extent are to represent the University in this debate. Their work as shown by the debates that have been held through the year has been of an exceptionally high order. They speak with great...
Ninety-nine must wake up and show more enthusiasm than it has. It must realize before it is too late the real importance of the contest. If freshman debating is not to be given up the debaters must prove that they are competent to speak in a way that will reflect credit upon the University, and the class must show that it is interested enough to support their representatives. The main support must of course come from this class, and it will speak but poorly for the class spirit of the Freshmen if there are many empty seats tonight...