Word: speech
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Fogg Art Museum, the Freshman speakers defeated Yale in a contest of unusual merit and interest. The audience was very enthusiastic. As the speakers went on the platform they were received with rousing cheers for Yale and Harvard, and each man was applauded loudly before and after his speech. After the result was announced, the greatest enthusiasm was shown and the speakers were carried off the platform...
...Dorman '96, 'Speech before Agrippa," St. Paul...
...Steward opened the debate for Harvard in a guarded and conservative speech. He spoke in excellent form and was the most persuasive of the Harvard speakers. The case of the affirmative he defined in part as follows...
...real debate was brought out in rebuttal. Steward made a most forcible and effective outline of the case which had been presented by the affirmative. In marked contrast to Steward's speech was the active rebuttal of Baldwin. Sayre spoke rapidly and with great clearness and earnestness. Clark again pursued his method of answering the affirmative by setting over against each other apparently contrary arguments made by the Harvard speakers. Parker was slow, speaking in rather a hoarse voice, but with force. Stokes lost by a monotonous rising inflection, but had good form, and ended with a strong appeal...
...debate to choose the speakers who will represent Yale in the Harvard-Yale debate, Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., of New York, Rogers Baldwin, of New York, and Walter H. Clark, of Hartford, were chosen. A. P. Stokes, Jr., also won the Thacher prize of $75 offered for the best speech in debate by a member of the academic department at Yale...