Word: boorstin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trials held recently by the Harvard Debating Council, eighteen men have been selected who will compose the first and second squads in coming debates, it was announced yesterday by R. B. Eckles '32, president of the Council. Those who have been accepted on the first squad are: D. J. Boorstin '34, R. H. Cohen '32, R. B. Eckles '32, C. L. Harriss '34, M. A. Hoffman '34, Robert Mandel '34, S. M. Peyser '34, A. C. Phillips '34, P. C. Reardon '32, D. M. Sullivan...
...addition to electing the officers for the ensuing year, the council accepted into its membership all those belonging to the Freshman triangular debating team, which bowed to Yale and was victorious over Princeton recently. The new members of the class of 1934 are as follows: Daniel Joseph Boorstin '34, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, recent winner of the Coolidge Prize for public speaking; Malcolm Arthur Hoffman '34, of White Plains, New York; Asa Emory Phillips Jr. '34, of Washington, D.C.; Thomas Edward Naughten '34, of Washington, D.C.; George Gore, of Rapid City, South Dakota; John Joseph O'Donnell '34, of Milton; Seymour...
...Boorstin '84 was announced yesterday as the winner of the Coolidge prize for the best showing in the tryouts for the Freshman Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate. The judging was done by F. C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, on the basis of the speeches given in the trials held last week...
...prize consists of $50 and is given annually after the Freshman debate. Boorstin was a member of the team which went to New Haven to debate the Yale first year...
...only experience the Freshmen have had this year, the McGill date having been called off. The Freshmen lost the Brown debate by a 2 to 1 decision, but won the Exeter debate, which was on a similar subject as the Princeton and Yale debates, 2 to 0. Boorstin, O'Donnell and Hoffman argued in the Brown debate, while Phillips and Hoffman were on the Harvard team that defeated Exeter...