Word: freshmen
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There will be a debate this evening in University 16 at seven o'clock. The question will be: "Resolved, That the United States Navy should be further increased." Principal disputants.- Affirmative: F. J. Snite and G. R. Stobbs. Negative: W. C. Gerrish and B. W. Currie. All freshmen are cordially invited...
...freshmen are cordially invited...
...debate did not tend to lessen this feeling materially, though considering their inexperience, the Harvard speakers did themselves credit. It seemed to us then as it seems to us now that intercollegiate debate demands too great maturity and experience on the part of the participants to be undertaken by freshmen with thorough success. The Freshman Debating Club has a distinct sphere within the University in training men for the great debates with Yale and Princeton, and it should confine itself to this task, which would certainly give it enough to occupy all its time...
...arrangements for the conduct of the debate are as follows: Professor Baker will preside. Each speaker will be given fifteen minutes in which to present his argument. Speeches in rebuttal will be limited to five minutes. There will be three judges selected by the Yale freshmen from a list submitted by Harvard. The list is: Dr. Bates, of the M. I. T., Professor Churchill, of the Andover Theological Seminary, Mr. Henry A. Clapp, literary critic of the Boston Advertiser, Dr. W. C. Collar, principal of the Roxbury Latin School, Rev. S. W. Crothers, D. D., of Cambridge, Rev. E. Winchester...
...first trial debate for the selection of speakers to represent the Harvard freshmen in the debate with Yale will be held Tuesday, March 24, at 7.30 p. m., probably in Harvard 1. The debate will be thrown open to all members of the freshman class. Of those who try, the ten best speakers will be selected by the judges who will be three of the following: Messrs. Duniway, Dobyns, Hutton and Grilk. The second trial debate will be held Thursday, March 26, at 7.30 p. m., in Sever 11. On this occasion the ten speakers selected at the first trial...