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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sixth consecutive time Harvard defeated Princeton in the annual debate in Sanders Theatre last night, on the question: "Resolved, That the English claims in the controversy with the South African Republic are justifiable." Harvard supported the affirmative and Princeton the negative. The presiding officer was the Hon. Samuel J. Elder...
...Jones '00, the last speaker for Princeton, said that the negative did not undertake to defend any actions of the present war, but did claim that England's interference was not justifiable. The policy of England in South Africa is tending to tear the races asunder, to destroy all relations that ever existed between England and the Boers. Furthermore, the few instances cited by the affirmative show no more proof of a state of mob law in the Transvaal than our 127 lynchings last year prove that the United States is in a state of riot...
...speakers in the 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...
...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-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...
...lives in Pittsburg and prepared at the Shadyside Academy of that city. He entered Princeton in 1896. In his junior year he won his class debate in Whig Hall and in 1898 and again this year he captured second prize in the first competitive debates. He represented his class last year in the 1876 prize debate on Washington's Birthday and was one of the debaters from Whig Hall in the interhall debate and entered the junior oratorical contest last year...