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...Yardling track team should finish its season with a win over Yale tomorrow afternoon in their meet at Soldier's Field. Earlier this year, the freshmen whipped both Yale and Princeton in an indoor triangular meet...
Unlike other undergraduate activities, debating, by necessity, predicates an absence of publicity. Once the focus of a good deal of student interest, most home debates today draw few if any spectators. Where Sanders was occasionally filled for one of the annual Triangular Debates with Yale and Princeton, the Ames Courtroom last Friday night held no more than 100 spectators. "Today, people can read about the great question of the day, or listen over the raido, more easily than they could in 1900," one student explained. "But while an audience would be good for the ego, it isn't necessary...
...participants in that debate were graduates of Boston schools where debates had been held since 1887. The first debate in which no decisions were rendered, had three speakers without a rebuttal. After three years Princeton was added as a regular opponent, and finally, in 1909, the formal Triangulars were set up. Providing for simultaneous debates in Cambridge, New Haven, and Princeton, the Triangulars have been held annually since then, despite two wars and Harvard's break in athletic relations with Princeton in the 20s. In the Triangular, dominance has come in cycles, with Harvard winning more than its share. This...
Impetus to the more formal debates of the early 20th century was given by a number of prizes, including the Coolidge Prize, endowed in memory of T. Jefferson Coolidge 1850 and awarded annually to the two best speakers in a practice debate preceeding the Triangulars. The prize, won this year by Robert M.O'Neil '56 and David P. Bryden '57, is awarded on the specifications established in the instructions to the judges for the Triangular Debates...
...victory was part of the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular matches, but in the Eastern Intercollegiate League, where only nine matches are counted, Harvard is credited with a close 5-4 victory over Yale. The varsity's depth carried through the H-Y contest with ease, but in Eastern League play the top of the squad had its hands full...