Word: fall
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question under discussion is a political, not a sentimental one. It is an acknowledged fact that the Transvaal is the weaker state, but weakness of itself has never argued righteousness. Is the Briton or the Boer right? To decide it we must dismiss our sentiment and fall back upon our judgment...
Wilbur Morse '00, of Philadelphia, prepared for College at the Central High School. In the fall of '94 he entered the University of Pennsylvania and became a member of the Philomathean Debating Society, which he represented in an interclub debate with the Zelosophic Society. The following fall he entered Harvard, and was on the '99 Freshman debating team which defeated Yale. Morse spent the winter of '96-'97 in Philadelphia doing newspaper work. In the fall of '97 he re-entered Harvard and made the University debating team which lost to Yale at New Haven in December...
Joseph Addison Jones, 1900, resides in Passaic, N. J. He prepared for college at Blair Hall, Blairstown, N. J., graduating from there in 1896 and entering Princeton in the fall of that year. While at Blair Hall he won a prize in oratory and was prominent in debates. In his freshman year he won first prize in the freshman and special, debates in Clio Hall, and represented his class in the class of 1876 prize debate. He won first prize in the sophomore oratorical contest and general prize debate in Clio Hall. Last year he represented Princeton in the Yale...
...under the auspices of the B. A. A. The all interscholastic crew will then be selected. Of the prominent men who rowed last year the following have entered Harvard: Roberts, Bent, Warner, George, Locke, Adams, Jackson, Piper, Walcott, Ayer and Boardman, and six of these rowed this fall on the winning Weld Freshman crew...
...increase in registration this fall is very marked, each of the three classes being larger than in any previous year. Of the third year class 21 percent did not return, as against 32, 28, 36, 30, 34, and 44 per cent respectively, in six preceding years. The second year men failing to return make only 12 percent of the whole class, as against 25, 7, 23, 28, 24, and 27 per cent in former years...