Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recognition of their victory over Princeton, each of the Harvard debaters will be given a small silver medal, bearing on one side the fac-simile of a Greek coin, and on the other the debater's name and the occasion. The medals will be given by the University Debating Club. Similar medals will be given in the future to all winning 'Varsity debating teams...
...scheme is also on foot to establish annual prizes, to be awarded at the final trials for future Yale and Princeton debates, to the man who makes the best showing of the evening. This custom is observed at Yale...
Parke's clear-cut and deliberate arguments were the most convincing of those offered by the Harvard men. The best speech as to form was made by S. B. Rosenthal '98 in his opening arguments for Harvard. For Princeton the most effective speaker was R. D. Dripps, whose delivery was free from the indirect and rather too assertive mannerisms of the other...
...Reeves opened for Princeton. He stated at the outset that Princeton would insist that this debate was over a question of fact, and that no mere assertions or theories would go unchallenged. Our present immigration restrictions, according to him, are founded upon an economic basis. This is rightly so. If a man comes to this country with an ability and a willingness to work, we can make no indictment against him. We have great undeveloped rescurces in this country that we must depend upon immigrants to develop. Our present restrictions are keeping out the most undesirable of possible immigrants. Since...
...Dripps was the second speaker for Princeton. He took up the question of the desirability of the present tide of immigration from Southern Europe. It is claimed that these immigrants are so extremely undesirable that something should be done to keep them out, even if we do not strike at any other class. As a matter of fact, however, these people are desirable. It is claimed that they drift to the almshouses and slums. From the actual statistics that have been gathered, however, it is seen that the Italians and the Hungarians do not constitute such an alarming proportion...