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...Yale-Princeton debate occurs here on Friday night of this week. This promises to be an interesting contest, for the speakers on both sides have all had experience in debating, and Princeton's especially, are all three noted prize winners in Whig and Clio Halls, besides being prominent in other spheres of activity. However, they are all undergraduates and because of this fact it is though that Yale's representatives one of whom is a Law School man and another a theologian, will be superior. However, Princeton's record in debating in the past has been her pride and every...
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...
Amid the excitement attendant upon the game with Yale on Manhattan Field, Princeton has been quietly preparing for another contest with Yale of quite another sort. Last Wednesday evening the representatives of Whig and Clio Halls met in the interhall contest in Old Chapel to decide who should represent Princeton in the Yale-Princeton debate, to occur on Dec. 6. Dean Murray presided and the judges were Charles E. Green, LL. D., of the Board of Trustees; Professor W. M. Daniels and L. C. Hull of Lawrenceville. Clio's representatives were J. B. Cochran '96, G. H. Waters...
...final contest between the Whig and Clio Halls to determine who should represent Princeton in the intercollegiate debate with Yale at New Haven on May 1, was held last evening. The following-named were chosen as debaters: W. F. Burns '95 of Evanston, III.; B. M. Hirshfield '95 of Steubenville, O., and R. N. McElroy '96 of Lees Summit, Mo., while Albert Hayes '95 and F. L. Lewis '95 were chosen as alternates...