Word: whig
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Robert McN. McElroy '96 was born at Perryville, Ky. He prepared for college at the Louisville High School, entering the freshman class in October, 1892. He took first prize in sophomore debate in Whig Hall, and second prize the same year in the Whig oratorical contest. He was a member of the debating team which defeated Yale at New Haven last year on May 1, and was one of the two who were allowed second speeches at that time. He won the first prize in the senior oratorical contest this year in Whig and first prize for disputation...
...will represent Princeton in the intercollegiate debate with Harvard are: William Loetscher '96 and Robert M. McElroy '96, members of the American Whig Society, and Herbert Ure '96, member of the Cliosophic Soceity. McElroy was one of Princeton's representatives who won the debate with Yale last year. E. W. Hamilton '95 was chosen first alternate...
...preliminary trials to choose Princeton's representatives in the Harvard-Princeton debate took place Thursday night. The Cliosophic Society and the American Whig Society each chose three representatives. These six, with all other competitors, will meet in a final debate from which the three representatives in the intercollegiate debate will be chosen...
Ralph Barton Perry '96, of New York City, prepared for college at the Franklin School, of Germantown, Pa. In freshman year he won in Whig Hall first prize in debate and second in essay. In sophomore year he was Washington's Birthday debater from his class. Junior year he won first prize in essay in hall, and this year second in the senior oratorical contest...
Edward William Hamilton '96, of Schenectady, N. Y., prepared for Princeton at Chapius Collegiate School in New York City. In sophomore year he won first prize in oratory in Whig Hall, and in junior year he won second prize in general inter-class debate in hall and first in extempore speaking. Last year he was one of the contestants on the preliminary Harvard debate, won one of the Junior Orator medals and the Lit. prize for Washington's Birthday Oration. He is the president of the Civil Service Reform Club, and also one of the Baird candidates...