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...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 in the Baird contest this year. He is a deliberate and impressive speaker and especially strong in refutation...
...Academy, delivering the class valedictory on graduating day. He entered Princeton in 1892. He is a member of Clio Hall, where he won second place in the sophomore prize debate and first prize in the extempore speaking contest this fall. He was one of the sixteen appointed by the Baird committee as eligible for the Baird prizes, and was a first group man last year...
...night of February 7, and will be preceded by the Glee Club concert in Alexander Hall. An unusually large number of preliminary dance cards has been issued and the attendance promises to be greater than that for many years past. On the night preceding the promenade, the Baird contest in oratory disputation and poetry will be held in examination. This contest is open to some members of the senior class selected for ability in writing, and the main interest in it is due to the fact that the winner of the oratorical contest is usually appointed to be valedictorian...
Harvard will play both matches on the same grounds as two years ago, viz.: Pennsylvania at Manheim, Haverford on the college grounds. There is a chance this year that Princeton, also, may get up a team. J. H. Baird '99, who played fullback on the football team, is a strong cricketer and is anxious to have Princeton represented in the league...
...first in extempore speaking. Last year he was one of the contestants on the preliminary Harvard debate, won one of the Junior Orator medals and the Lit. prize for Washington's Birthday Oration. He is the president of the Civil Service Reform Club, and also one of the Baird candidates...