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The committee of the New York Alumni appointed to investigate the status of debating, recently issued a pamplilet giving the results of their investigations and drew up resolutions. Their most radical suggestion is the addition of an experienced debater to the corps of college instructors, to give teachings in debate...
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...
Critics may object, and do object, that athletic prowess is unduly exalted, and that it involves distortion of facts to rate the best football player, or best oarsman, higher than the best scholar or debater. But the critic is not wholly right in this. There is a disposition in the...
OLD DEBATER.
We are not, however, ready to admit that intellectual achievement passes wholly without recognition here, nor is the assertion likely to be made by anyone familiar with the conditions of Harvard life. It is true that the fame of the debater, or of the literary or scientific man, is not...