Word: robert
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Robert Treat Paine '88 presided, and introduced President Eliot, who said that he firmly believed in the bill which, in principle, will bring about more public interest in legislation, although the details of the bill might, in his estimation, be altered. He said that by its very essence, the opinion of hundreds of thousands of people is bound to be more accurate and more representative than any expression now given by legislators exposed to political influences...
...Monday evening, April 15, the international views of the Peace Movement will be discussed. The speaker for America will be the Honorable Oscar S. Strauss, Secretary of Commerce and Labor; for France, Baron d'Estournelles de Constant; for England, Sir Robert Cranston, ex-Lord provost of Edinburgh; for Germany, Professor Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard; for Belgium, Baron Descamps, the secretary of state; for Holland, Mr. Maarten Maartens...
...Robert John Sterret '07, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who will open the debate for Princeton, prepared for college at Temple College in that city. In his freshman year, he won the first prize for extemporaneous speaking in the Cliosophic Society, of which he is a member, and spoke on the team that won the annual class debate from the American Whig Society. In his sophomore year, he took part in the Class of 1876 Prize Debate; but this is the first time he has made a University team...
...Robert Simpson Sidebotham '07, of Lake City, Michigan, will close the debate for Princeton. He prepared at the Mount Hermon School and has been prominent in debating during his college course. Last year he won the Class of 1876 Prize Debate and the Junior Oratorical Contest, and was alternate on the team that debated Yale. In the trials for the University team this year, he was awarded the Spencer Trask Prize for the best individual speaking. He is chairman of the intercollegiate debating committee and is a member of the Cliosophic Society, which he has represented in debate...
Some of the men who have given talks or readings are: Dr. Henry Van Dyke h.'94, Mr. C. T. Copeland '82, Mr. Robert Mantell, Mr. R. F. Herrick '90, Dean LeB. R. Briggs '75, Professors C. R. Lanman, W. A. Nelson '96, and Mr. Frederick Moore...