Word: princeton
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Harvard has been declared winner of the 1927. Harvard Yale-Princeton debate recently held in each of the three universities, it has been announced by the Eastern Intercollegiate Debating League...
...originally declared that Harvard and Yale were tied for first place and Princton came last. In the debate at Princeton, where the Yale affirmative team met the Princeton negative team, two judges voted for Yale, and one judge and the audience cast their votes for Princeton. It was then thought that in case of a tie, the vote of the audience should be discarded, and the decision for the evening was given to Yale. At New Haven, Harvard and Yale tied for the honors of the evening, and in Cambridge, Harvard received the unanimous decision of the judges...
...state university in the land has a more aristocratic tradition than Virginia. The sons of first Virginia families went there when their peers-in the north, south and west-were traveling away as they still do from their home state universities, to Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Virginia produced, as it still does, professional men almost exclusively-lawyers, doctors, architects, journalists. Few scions df the aristocracy-that-was became bank clerks, bondsellers, storekeepers. And if they were going to stay on the land, as gentlemen farmers, they did not go to college, unless it was to make friends and carouse. Martial...
Freshmen who will represent Harvard against Yale tonight are C. N. Comstock. M. V. Anastos, and F. B. Thurber, with G. M. Parker as alternate. Those debating Princeton at Princeton, will be E. H. Hubbard, R. H. Sharp and P. D. Silverman, M. W. Mansur will act as alternate. These men left Cambridge yesterday for Princeton, where they will be entertained over the week-end by the Princeton Debating Council...
...Resolved: That there is more to hope than to fear from science", is the subject of this year's Freshman triangular debate to be held tonight in each of the three Universities, Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The debate in Cambridge will be staged between the Yale Freshman affirmative team and the Harvard first-year negative team. In Smith Halls Common Room at 8 o'clock E. G. Mantle, '27, Secretary of the Debating Council and a member of the University debating team, will preside...