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...semi-annual elections to the two literary societies took place last week, the American Whig Society having 108 new members, mostly from the entering class, and the Cliosophic Society...
Robert McN. McElroy '96 was born at Perryville, Ky. He prepared for college at the Louisville High School, entering the freshman class in October, 1892. He took first prize in sophomore debate in Whig Hall, and second prize the same year in the Whig oratorical contest. He was a member of the debating team which defeated Yale at New Haven last year on May 1, and was one of the two who were allowed second speeches at that time. He won the first prize in the senior oratorical contest this year in Whig and first prize for disputation...
...second man in the Biddle essay contest. In junior year he secured the Wood scholarship which is the first honor prize of the year; also the Wanamaker prize in English Literature, and the class of 1870 Anglo-Saxon prize. In this year he won first in junior debate in Whig and was one of Whig's representatives in the public junior oratorical contest at commencement. In the fall of '95 he won first in the annual French medal debate, the prize for which is a large gold medal, the gift of the distinguished young Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin...
...will represent Princeton in the intercollegiate debate with Harvard are: William Loetscher '96 and Robert M. McElroy '96, members of the American Whig Society, and Herbert Ure '96, member of the Cliosophic Soceity. McElroy was one of Princeton's representatives who won the debate with Yale last year. E. W. Hamilton '95 was chosen first alternate...
...preliminary trials to choose Princeton's representatives in the Harvard-Princeton debate took place Thursday night. The Cliosophic Society and the American Whig Society each chose three representatives. These six, with all other competitors, will meet in a final debate from which the three representatives in the intercollegiate debate will be chosen...