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...first time he has been a member of an intercollegiate team, he has had wide experience as a public speaker. He won the Junior Oratorical Contest last year, and the Baird Prize for oratory this year. He will take part in the Lynde Debate at Commencement, on the American Whig Society team and will also be one of the Commencement speakers...
Robert Service Steen '01 has twice been on teams that have defeated Yale in debating. Together with Babson, he will represent the American Whig Society in the Lynde Debate this year. He also has won several prize debates -- the Competitive Debate, the Junior Prize Debate, the Class of 1876 Prize Debate, and the Baird Prize for Disputation. He lives in Philadelphia, and prepared for college at the Hamilton School in that city
Alfred Sewall Weston P. G., lives at West Mount Vernon, Me, and prepared for college at St. Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsbury, Vt. He entered Princeton in 1895 and has since been active in debating. In his sophomore year he won second prize in the second competitive debate in Whig Hall. In his junior year he won the first prize in the junior debate, the junior extempore speaking contest in Whig Hall and was one of the speakers in the junior oratorical contest. During his senior year he won first prize in the first competitive debate and the French medal contest...
Joseph Hall Hill, 1900, Edgewood Park, Pa., lives in Pittsburg and prepared at the Shadyside Academy of that city. He entered Princeton in 1896. In his junior year he won his class debate in Whig Hall and in 1898 and again this year he captured second prize in the first competitive debates. He represented his class last year in the 1876 prize debate on Washington's Birthday and was one of the debaters from Whig Hall in the interhall debate and entered the junior oratorical contest last year
...preliminary debates have been held in the American Whig and the Cliosophic Literary Societies to decide upon the four men to represent each Hall in the Inter-Hall debate to be held Friday, Nov. 17. From these men a team of six will be chosen for the debate with Harvard. The Spencer Trask prize of fifty dollars will be given to the man doing the best work in these preliminary debates...