Word: whig
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...upon which it made the contests in 1856 which resulted in the defeat of Fremont, and, in 1860, when its victory made Abraham Lincoln president. In 1848, however, there were few who were ready to accept this doctrine. Mr. Dana was one of the few who left the Whig party and attended the Free Soil convention at Buffalo which nominated Van Buren and Adams...
Princeton, N. J., November 25.--The most important event of the week ending Monday at Princeton was the vote of the members of Whig Hall to abolish secrecy in that institution. Whig is one of the two literary societies at Princeton, and it has been a secret organization since its foundation late in the eighteenth century. This step of doing away with secrecy in the Halls has been agitated by the Daily Princetonian and the Nassau Literary Magazine; Clio Hall, the other of the two institutions, has not yet had the matter before it for consideration. The vote in Whig...
...second speaker, comes from Riverside, Galif., and prepared at West Denver School and, for one year at Denver University. He took part in the inter-hall debate in his Sophomore year and was an alternate against Yale. As a Junior he was awarded second prize on the Whig Hall team, and first in the competitive hall debate. He won the Coubertion debating medal this winter...