Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Resolved: Monarchy is the best policy." Then they went to Baltimore for the first international-interracial college debate on record. In Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, before an audience 95% Negro, they again lost the Prohibition issue, to the serious statistics and idealism of dark-skinned silver-tongues from Lincoln University. Speaker Turner of Lincoln made obeisance to the fame of Oxford, mentioning Poet Tennyson as one of her illustrious graduates. Speaker Franklin of Oxford, replying with thanks, was obliged to disown Lord Tennyson, who went to Cambridge. "And Oxford," he added, "is a seat of learning and wouldn...
...decisive margin of 803 votes to 376, an audience in Baltimore recently acknowledged the forensic triumph of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania over Oxford. Quite a triumph indeed, for a small and relatively unheard of institution to defeat the wellknown Britishers, and in itself a fact worth passing notice. But in addition it involves facts of far greater import. The afore-mentioned audience happened to be composed to the extent of ninety-five percent, of colored listeners, the debaters of Linclon University were themselves colored, and the debate was held in the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. This is indeed something...
...from the truth by race prejudice and passion. Had the scene of this debate been laid further south anything from a race riot down might well have taken place, such, is the strength of tradition, no matter how illogical or untested it may be Oxford, by its meeting with Lincoln, has broken down one more of the barriers erected around the myth about the necessary inferiority of the negro mind...
This fall the Deputations Committee, headed by J. L. Beauchamp Jr. '28, has sent out six teams, containing a total of 20 men. Seven towns have been visited during the past two months: East Bridge-water, Concord, Lincoln, Methuen, North Attleboro, Saugus, and Burlington. In view of the increasing demand throughout the state, a large number of men will go on these trips during the winter and spring...
...Freshman squash team was, defeated yesterday afternoon by the Lincoln's Inn team by the score...