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...same time, the Philomathean Society, which founded the Daily Pennsylvanian in 1335, passed a resolution to "strongly deplore the arbitrary and unconstitutional suspension of publication and distribution ... we recognize the right ... to publish dissenting views with complete freedom...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Penn Disciplines Editor Of Student Newspaper | 2/27/1962 | See Source »

...POLLACK Philomathean Society University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 9, 1934 | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Donald McConaughy, of Mount Hermon, who will speak second for Yale, prepared for college at Mount Hermon School, where he took part in debating. He was president of the Philomathean Literary Society of the School, and represented it in the cup debates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN DEBATE YALE | 5/14/1909 | See Source »

Wilbur Morse '00 was graduated in 1894 from the Central High School in Philadelphia. The next year he spent at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a prominent member of the Philomathean Society. In the fall of 1895 he entered Harvard and was on the Freshman team which defeated Yale '99. After a year's absence in Philadelphia, Morse joined the the class of 1900. He has since been on three University debating teams, in the Yale debate of 1897, and in the Princeton debates of April and December 1899. For his work in the trials for the debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE DEBATE. | 3/30/1900 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRINCETON DEBATE. | 12/15/1899 | See Source »

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