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...reason that the result of this debate is unusually gratifying is that an extraordinary interest in debating has been developed this year at Princeton. Chagrined al the defeat her representatives met at the hands of Harvard last year, Princeton has this year been making the most strenuous efforts to win the debate, and her speakers were trained with the utmost care. In spite of all this Harvard is again victorious, and her record is still unblemished. We are justly proud of our debaters...
...Huidekoper '96 has the leading article in the last number of the United Service Magazine. It is entitled "Did Grouchy by disobedience of orders cause the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo...
...spite of the inauspicious outcome of the freshman debate with Yale last year, this year's club has started in with zeal and enthusiasm. The standard of debating has been generally good, and the members are earnest and sincere in their efforts to do well, and to return the defeat of last year. When it was first proposed to hold an intercollegiate debating contest, we looked upon the plan with disfavor, and it must be confessed that the first debate did not tend to lessen this feeling materially, though considering their inexperience, the Harvard speakers did themselves credit. It seemed...
...turning out a good team are excellent, and they must not be dwarfed by a lack of enthusiasm on the part of the students. Want of loyalty to a team must never be charged to Harvard men, whose enthusiasm is not wont to flag even in the face of defeat. The Athletic Association is in need of help, and if Harvard is to have a fair chance in the intercollegiate contest next spring, student interest must revive. The men training for the team owe it to the University to do their best to bring her victory, and it is certainly...
...Harvard is to win this year the interest which has been so great in former years should not be allowed to flag, especially when the other universities are making unusual efforts to defeat her. Thus far the interest of the students, we think, has not been as great as it should have been. The reputation of Harvard in debate is a splendid one. She can show an absolutely unbroken record of victories, and every student in the University should feel a personal interest in keeping this record as clear...