Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Wagner 1L, has been appointed coach of the Freshman team which will debate against Exeter...
Harvard selected the question and Yale chose to defend the negative. The University team was composed of F. B. Wagner 1L., I. Grossman 2L. and R. LuV. Lyman '03, who gave their opening speeches in the order named. In rebuttal the order was Lyman, Wagner and Grossman. For Yale R. H. Ewell '03 spoke first, A. Fox '03, second and C. D. Lockwood 3L., third. In the rebuttal the order was Fox, Lockwood and Ewell. The main speeches were twelve minutes in length and the rebuttal five. The judges were President Pritchett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Provost...
...delivery the two teams were very evenly matched, although the advantage rested with the University speakers. Wagner spoke with fluency and finish, but too little action; Ewell, for Yale, was especially direct and convincing, but sometimes made a climax in delivery when there was none in thought; Fox was rather unnatural in his style of speaking; Lockwood made up in earnestness what he lacked in variety; Lyman spoke straight to his audience and was effective, though slightly lacking in breath; Grossman, combining ease with vigor and variety, was probably the best speaker of the evening...
Answering for Harvard, Wagner said that the affirmative rested its case on the absolute right of a European nation to have a decision of the Hague tribunal enforced, since the tribunal has considered all the circumstances of the case. The wedge, which the negative fears, will be split, because the South American republics will become aroused to national responsibilities. Replying to the proposal of temporary holding, he cited England's occupation in Egypt which has resulted practically in permanent control. They say it would be a chance for Germany to get a basis for military operations, but presented to Americans...
...Wagner began the debate and said in part: Under the presupposed facts of the question, a South American state has repudiated a just obligation which it owed to a European government. The creditor state has acted fairly and consented to arbitrate its claim. The debtor state has acted of its own free will in consenting to the Hague tribunal as a referee, and is in honor bound to accept the decision. We must presume that this decision was just, and that it set a reasonable time within which the South American country could have collected the sum and paid...