Word: superior
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard debaters excelled in form and in the manner of presenting their arguments, but the Princeton men were equally strong in the arguments themselves. The Harvard men were uniformly superior in delivery, language and all the points of form, and their arguments fitted well together and developed more smoothly than those of the Princeton speakers. Bruce began rebuttal work in his first speech, the second on the Harvard side, whereas the first two Princeton speeches were entirely set and made no attempt to meet the affirmative's arguments. The Harvard stand was that the conditions justified interference, that England...
...team from the Sophomore Debating Club was defeated by Exeter Academy at Exeter last night. The question was the same as that of the Princeton debate. The Harvard speakers, who were superior to their opponents in form, based their argument on England's moral right to intervene in the Transvaal because of her superior fitness to meet the peculiar conditions of South African government. For Exeter, R. R. Alexander, L. Grilk, and J. F. Dore maintained that England's intervention is not justifiable because she is prohibited from intervening by both convention and precedent. The rebuttal did not materially affect...
...Freshman eleven, in its last game of the season, defeated the Yale freshmen, on Saturday, by a score of fifty-four to nothing. The Harvard team was superior to its opponents in every point of the game, and showed the effects of better coaching and training. After the first two touchdowns had been secured, the Yale defense broke down completely and the subsequent scoring was due as much to the wretched tackling of the Yale team, as to the fast running of the Harvard backs...
After a record of ten straight defeats and one draw, the Harvard team, captained by Arthur Cumnock, defeated the Yale eleven in 1890. This was the first victory clearly due to superior playing. The score...
...universities were broken off, and were not resumed again until 1897. In that year a tie game was played at Cambridge, in which neither side scored. Last year Harvard defeated Yale at New Haven by a score of 17-0 in a game in which Harvard proved herself superior to her opponent in every respect...