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...YOUNGMAN, FLETCHER DOBYNS, H. FRIEDBERG, W. M. GARDNER, Committee...
...provisional appointments for commencement parts have been announced by the faculty of Dartmouth College as follows; Oration, with valedictory, Robert H. Fletcher, Hanover; salutatory in Latin, with oration, Arthur T. Smith, Dover; philosophical orations, Edward R. Ham, Keezar Falls, Me.; Moses H. Hoyt, Fitchburg; English orations, Thomas C. Ham, East Barrington; Harry D. Lakeman, Nashua; disputation, "Is the American Policy of Dispersed Collegiate Endowment Advantageous to Education?"- affirmative, Louis S. Cox, Manchester; no appointment for negative; dissertation, Guy C. Richards, Salem, Mass...
...Fletcher Dobyns followed on the negative. He said that his colleagues had already established the negative, but that their resources were not yet exhausted. After showing that there are fatal objections to the substitute which has been proposed for legal tenders and that the legal tender system possesses great, positive advantages that demand its retention, he dwelt upon the point that the principal objection that is urged against the legal tender system is without foundation...
...competitive debate, held January 17, the Judges, Professors Briggs, Hart and Baker, chose the following men to speak against Princeton: William Sterling Youngman, L. S., of Pennsylvania, Joseph Parker Warren '96, of Massachusetts, Fletcher Dobyns '98, of Ohio, and Frank Rudolph Steward '96, of Montana, the last as substitute...
...third Harvard speaker, Fletcher Dobyns '98, is 23 years of age, and comes from Oberlin, O. He prepared at the Oberlin Academy, where he was president of one of the two debating clubs, and won second place in a state oratorical contest, although college seniors were among his competitors...