Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
Harry Bevier Kirtland '01, of Plymouth, O., entered Harvard from the Hale School of Boston. Last year he was on the Sophomore debating team which defeated the Freshmen in the interclass debate and was one of the last fourteen men retained at the trials for the Princeton debate. At the trials for tonight's debate he was awarded the Coolidge Debating Prize. Kirtland is vice president of the Junior Wranglers...
...from Chicago, where he prepared for College at the Lake View High School. During his Freshman year he was at Dartmouth, and there secured second prize in the Rollins Prize speaking contest. Last year he was one of the last fourteen men retained at the trials for the Harvard-Princeton debate...
...junior oratorical contest. During his senior year he won first prize in the first competitive debate and the French medal contest in Whig Hall and the class of 1876 prize debate on Washington's Birthday. He was a member of Princeton's debating teams last year against Yale and Harvard and won the special prize given in the Harvard preliminary debates, and first prize in the Baird disputation contest. He now holds a fellowship in the university...
...Yale-Princeton debate. For four years he has represented his hall in the interhall debates, held preliminary to the intercollegiate debates. In his junior year he was a member of the team which represented Princeton in the debate with Yale at New Haven and a substitute for the Harvard debate last spring. In the preliminary trials for the debate tonight, he was awarded the Spencer Trask prize of $50. He was recently elected to deliver the ivy oration on the occasion of the commencement exercises of his class. For two years he has been a member of the intercollegiate debating...