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...Kennedy of Princeton first discussed the friendly relations between his university and Harvard. In the past four years, baseball has been resumed and the triangular intercollegiate debate has been installed. Furthermore, the Freshman football team played Princeton last fall and it seems very likely that the university teams will meet within a few years...
...spite of the result of the triangular debate, for which the Harvard teams deserve hearty praise, there is no question that public speaking in the University is at a low ebb. This is due to a lack of support, which in turn results form a natural hesitancy to undertake the laborious and technical preparation of a difficult question with no assurance of participating in a contest commanding anything like widespread collegiate interest or support. Under the present system, with a debating association existing simply to train two intercollegiate teams, a general lack of interest in debating is inevitable...
...triangular debating system will receive its second trial tonight when the two University teams meet those of Yale and Princeton. This system did not prove very successful last season, as the home teams in each case won the negative side of the question, and it has not yet been accepted as a permanent institution. Its advantages are that it makes less difficult the task of the unenviable second team, because it is unnecessary for the latter to prepare so laboriously the opposite side of the question, and that it gives each first team the practice of meeting the varying attack...
This evening at 8 o'clock, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton will compete in a triangular debate. Harvard will meet Princeton in Sanders Theatre, and Yale in Woolsey Hall, New Haven. Yale will meet Princeton in Alexander Hall, Princeton. The subject for all three debates will be "Resolved, That the Federal Government should have the power to impose an income tax, not apportioned among the states according to population." Harvard will argue the negative in the debate with Princeton and the affirmative in the debate with Yale. The university returning two winning teams will win the debate...
...following division of the men chosen to represent the University in the triangular debate between Harvard, Princeton and Yale on March 21, has been announced by Judge M. B. Stone, who is coach of the team: against Princeton at Cambridge, N. M. Potter '10, H. H. Breeland '12, J. D. Ellis 21,; against Yale at New Haven, T. M. Gregory '10, H. B. Ehrman '12, E. R. Burke...