Word: speech
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sophomores, Sargeant did the most effective work His rebuttal speech proved very damaging. For the Freshmen, Symonds made a neat summary of the negative case in closing the main debate and showed up several weaknesses in Sophomore arguments before finally resting the Freshman case...
Matthew Lowrie made the last opening speech for Princeton and the negative. A large part of his argument was intended to show that the Italian race is not undesirable as a whole, and not a menace to our institutions. In only four cities, he declared, have investigations of the slums been made, and these investigations have all been entirely overestimated. In New York there is supposed to be a slum population of 360,000 but the investigation took in only 26,000. This is a debate of facts, not of theories...
Parke's clear-cut and deliberate arguments were the most convincing of those offered by the Harvard men. The best speech as to form was made by S. B. Rosenthal '98 in his opening arguments for Harvard. For Princeton the most effective speaker was R. D. Dripps, whose delivery was free from the indirect and rather too assertive mannerisms of the other...
...clock this evening, in Sanders Theatre. The question will be "Resolved, That the present restrictions on immigration into the United Sates are insufficient." Harvard chose the subject and Princeton decided to support the negative, giving Harvard the affirmative. Each speaker will be allowed twelve minutes for his rebuttal speech...
Impersonations by C. E. Williams, a humorous speech by J. B. Holden, and music by the Junior members of the Glee Club helped things along. G. Fleming had written the words and music of a class song, which was sung by F. Turner and the members of the Glee Club...