Word: havener
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yokoi of New Haven will deliver a lecture on "The Progress of Civilization in Japan," before the Harvard Pedagogical Club on Thursday, May 7, at 7.30 p. m., in Harvard 1. Mr. Yokoi is a Japanese of unusually liberal views on religion, education and government. During the past few years he has studied at American universities, and has travelled extensively through the country as a student of American institutions. In the course of his residence here he has gained a thorough mastery of the English language. As he has made a special study of the subject on which...
...HAVEN, May 1.- Yale won her first intercollegiate debate with Harvard tonight. The decision of the judges, made less than five minutes after the debate closed was announced as unanimous. Although the Harvard speakers had a well-knitted line of argument they were unable to clear it from the inconsistencies into which the Yale speakers endeavored to force it. There was wanting in the Harvard argument definiteness, a fault which afforded an easy point of attack for the Yale men. Still the Harvard argument taken by itself was strong, but was not presented so forcibly as the Yale argument...
After the debate a banquet was given the speakers at the New Haven House at which Thomas Thatcher, Yale '71, of New York, acted as toastmaster...
Harvard's defeat in the debate at New Haven last evening is a bitter disappointment. It was earnestly hoped that the long line of victories would be kept intact; but since it is broken there is no need of losing heart. The one good that can be derived from this defeat is a more determined effort to win the next debate...
After the debate there will be a banquet at the New Haven House, at which Thomas Thacher, Yale '71, President of the New York Yale Alumni Association, will act as toastmaster...