Word: speech
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Charles Grilk '98 made the third speech on the afflrmative and said in part: There are four practical solutions of the problem. First, letting the islands go; second, joing with other nations in guaranteeing their neutrality and independence; third, assuming a protectorate over them; fourth, annexation...
...annual Harvard-Yale debate will take place tonight in New Haven. The question for debate will be: "Resolved, That the United States should annex the Hawaiian Islands." Harvard will support the affirmative. Each speaker will be allowed twelve minutes for his main speech and also five minutes for a rebuttal speech...
Harvard's team this year was chosen at a very satisfactory trial debate at which forty-seven men competed, each man being allowed five minutes for his speech. Yale's speakers have been selected in a different manner. Four separate preliminary trials were held, at which about one hundred men spoke in all. From these fifteen were selected, as follows: Academic department, five; Sheffield School, two; Divinity School, two: Law School, three. The final trial was held on November 5, each of the fifteen speakers being allowed ten minutes. The following men were chosen: H. W. Fisher...
...negro; for progress of negro see Dawson in same (Feb., 97), v. 164, p. 191; for meaning of negro supremacy, Wade Hampton in Forum V, p. 383, June, '88; Public Opinion, VIII, 551, IX, 240, 263, 286; N. Y. Evening Post, July 21, 1890; B. T. Washington's speech at Atlanta Exposition, 1895, in Public Opinion...
...intermission Coach Forbes led a cheer for Yale. Cheers were given for the eleven, for Cabot, and for Forbes, when the eleven went out, and after the concert was over. Mr. Lehmann was also cheered, and made a short speech in which he denied the statement that Englishmen could teach American universities courtesy and good feeling...