Word: rall
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting held in the university on Wednesday evening, a Biblical Club was organized, with the special object of discussing, at monthly meetings, the Apochryphal Literature of the Old Testament. The following officers were elected: President, W. H. Sallmon '94; secretary, J. S. Rogers '98; executive committee, H. F. Rall T. S., Rev. F. G. Marbles P. G., W. P. Keeler '97, and the president and secretary ex-offico. Sixty men joined the club at the first meeting...
...Frank Rall, of Des Moines, Iowa, was the second Yale speaker. He said: "The friends of the income tax law base their defence largely upon the financial need. Their argument rests upon two false assumptions: that the measure met this need, and that it was the best way of meeting it. The need was an immediate one, but no revenues could come from this tax for ten months, and the amount even then would be uncertain. A better source of aid was open - the internal revenue taxes. Here was a source of revenue, three times that estimated for this...
Each of the above speakers occupied twelve minutes. Messrs. Rall and Buttrick, for Yale, and Messrs. McElroy and Burns were allowed six minutes rebuttal. The judges, Rev. Lyman Abbott, of New York, Laurence Hutton and Professor Cummings, of Harvard, retired, and were out nearly half an hour. During their-absence Judge Howland made a witty speech, declining to talk upon the income tax, the subject under discussion, as it "touched him up" too deeply. Dr. Abbott, for the judges, then declared that the decision was not unanimous, but that it gave the victory to Princeton. There was some applause...
...Cummings of Harvard. The question selected is: "Resolved, that, under the circumstances, the passage of the income tax law of 1894 was justifiable." Yale presented the question, giving Princeton the choice of sides. Princeton selected the affirmative. The Yale speakers are Harold E. Buttrick of Brooklyn, N. Y., Frank Rall, Des Moines, Ia., and Clarence E. Clough, Wilmot Flats, N. H. The Princeton speakers are W. F. Burns of Illinois, R. M. McElroy of Kentucky, and B. L. Hirshfield of Ohio. They will speak in the order named, and the first two named speakers on each side will be entitled...
Yale's debaters will be L. S. Buttrick '95, Clough '95, and Rall '95. Clark '95, Julien '98, and Baldwin '95, alternates...