Word: morton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team which will meet Princeton at Princeton will uphold the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, that the provisions of the Platt Amendment regarding Cuba should now be applied to the Philippine Islands." This team will consist of W. D. Morton, Randall Creel and D. RK. Barnes, with L. S., King as alternate, and they will speak in the order named...
...first speaker for the negative, W. D. Morton '27, emphasized that success in the field of concentration presages later success in life, and quoted to show that the chances were 300 percent greater for late success if men had high schol- astic attainments. "It is necessary to use learned methods to select those who will be our leaders," he concluded...
...Morton Arnold '25, speaking next for the negative said: "These methods such as psychological and intelligence tests would tend to blurr and obscure the whole system of scholastic education. What would be the result? The secondary schools would immediately see the utter folly of trying to train pupils to pass other than scholastic tests." Arnold summed up his argument admirably when he said: "We believe in selecting for colleges those men who have proved to be intellectual leaders in the secondary schools...
...team which will debate with Princeton in Sanders Theatre will be composed of the following men: W. D. Morton Jr. '27, from Madisonville, Ky., Morton Arnold '25, from Cleveland, Ohio, P. W. Williams '25, from New Bedford, with R. A. Barton '25, from Passaic, N. J., and A. G. King '26, from Cambridge as alternates. The Princeton speakers will be J. B. Darby, C. A. Capen, and Carl Kopf, with M. A. Sellers as alternate...
...University in debating competition, two members of the class of 1927 are included in the personnel of this year's squad. D. L. Dickson '27, who has had but one year's experience in debating, will go to New Haven with the team upholding the affirmative. W. D. Morton Jr. is the other Freshman to secure a position on the team, and he will be the second speaker for the University in Sanders Theatre. Morton is an experienced debater, having won the individual state public speaking championship of Kentucky last year, and has been a member of the championship preparatory...