Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Committee on Intercollegiate Debates wishes to announce that, with the sanction of the Advisory Committee on Debating, the following system of trial debates will be used in selecting Harvard's representatives against Princeton...
...weeks after the first trial, these men shall speak in a formal debate each man having a main speech of twelve minutes and a rebuttal speech of five minutes. The judges shall then choose the three men and an alternate whom they think best qualified to speak against Princeton...
...regulations which will govern competition for the debate with Princeton form a third step towards remedying the faults presented at the outset this year by the debating situation at Harvard. The formation of a Sophomore Club and the decision of the Union and Forum to consolidate are two improvements, and this new method of trial also promises to be beneficial...
Although the date for the trials to select speakers for the Princeton debate has not yet been definitely fixed, it is not too early to say a few words in relation to an event of so much importance. Until within the last three years Harvard's supremacy in debating was undisputed; she had met and vanquished both Yale and Princeton several times. But now for three consecutive years Yale has beaten us. Last year, although Harvard beat Princeton, the latter showed by her defeat of Yale that she was a dangerous competitor. Those who have the interests of Harvard debating...
...National Tennis Association has offered a prize, to represent the interscholastic tennis championship of the United States, to be contested for at Newport the coming summer, by the winners of the interscholastic tennis tournaments held this spring at Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia...