Word: carleton
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Club held its last meeting of the year last night in University 16. The report of the treasurer showed the club to be slightly in debt on account of the Yale debate and the dinner afterwards. The meeting was very enthusiastic, the Yale debaters being cheered again and again. Carleton, the president of the club, made a closing speech...
Phillip Greenleaf Carleton continued for Harvard, showing that since 1883 the policy of the government has been to build battleships. However, the work, he said, is but begun. He went on to show the weakness of the present navy and the insufficiency of land defence alone to protect our immense seacoast. At present we would be unable to prevent a blockade, a landing of troops, or, in many instances, the bombardment of cities...
...Carleton was very clear in his statements, and showed a thorough knowledge of the subject. His style was smooth, but not in any way brilliant...
...rebuttal Carleton said that the Harvard men had had an interview with Admiral Belknap, who said that torpedo boats are a part of the sea-going navy. "We have proved," he said, "that war is a possibility at any time, and this justifies an adequate system of defence which is a sea-going navy...
Philip G. Carleton, the second Harvard speaker, comes from Lawrence, Mass. He prepared for Harvard at Phillips Academy, Andover, where he did considerable speaking, both in debating and in other ways. He was one of the speakers in the annual joint debate of last year between the Forum and the Philomathean Debating Club of Andover, and also on the Means Prize Contest and the Draper Prize Contest. He is now president of the Harvard Freshman Debating Club and a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Forum...