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...best speaker in the trials for the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate...
...trials for the Freshman triangular debate with Yale and Princeton on April 28, will come tonight at 7 o'clock in the Smith Halls Common Room. Candidates should come prepared to speak for five minutes on either side of the following question: "Resolved, that the Philippine Islands be given their immediate independence by the United States." As a result of these trials a squad of about a dozen men will be selected by three judges, W. L. Prosser 1L., coach of the Freshman team this year; C. H. Whelden 1G., member of last year's University team...
...question which will this year form the subject of the Freshman triangular debate will be announced tonight by the Yale Freshman Debating Club, worded Saturday by Princeton, and announced in its final form the beginning of next week. Regardless of the wording of the question; the University Freshmen will be represented by a negative team against Yale in Cambridge, and by an affirmative team against Princeton at Princeton...
...establishment to prizes for debating". From 1899 until 1908, two prizes of $100 each were given, one at each of the trial debates for the selection of the Harvard representatives in the Harvard-Yale and Harvard-Princeton debates which were then run at separate times. Since the triangular system has been in operation, however, only one prize has been awarded. The balance of the money being used for the "Coolidge Debating Medals", which are given to the participants in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate. The prize is awarded to that member of the team who has done the best work...
...meeting yesterday afternoon, the University Debating Council decided that it will be impossible to accept the challenge of Ashland College, Ashland, Ohio, to a debate this year by means of wireless telephone or radiophone. The council felt that in view of the approaching triangular debate with Yale and Princeton and especially due to lack of efficient sending apparatus in the University such a debate would be impracticable. It is altogether probable that by another year, the suggestion will be put into effect, and they by using a powerful radio station in Boston or by additions to the equipment...