HARVARD LETPER.
Preparing for the Yale Debatc—The
University Club—Tribute to
Justin Winsor.
Cambridge, Mass., November 8.—In-
terest in debating at Harvard shares
with football the honors of the Fall
term. While the athletes are busy pre-
paring for the meeting on Soldiers’
Feld. next Saturday, those whose in-
clination leads them to argumentative
and oratorical effort, have been not less
industrious in making ready for the
annual intercollegiate debate at New
Haven. It is rather unfortunate that
this debate comes so early in the col-
lege year, for the student body takes
more interest in the contest when it
occurs during the Winter term, when
college activities are less. diverted.
But the early date for the meeting has
not caught Harvard napping. The suc-
cessive defeats for two years have
touched the University pride, and stu-
dents and Faculty are aroused to the
necessity of putting forth every effort
to alter the verdict of recent contests.
ENTHUSIASM IN PRELIMINARIES.
The debate to chose Harvard’s rep-
resentatives was the most creditable
competition that has been held in Cam-
bridge since these debates were inaugu-
rated five years ago. Forty-seven men
competed, and the hall was well filled.
The men showed a good grasp of the
subject and handled the question with
discrimination as to the relative impor-
tance of the arguments they presented.
The judges were Professor James Barr
Ames, Mr. Solomon Lincoln, Dr. A.
C. Coolidge, Prof. George P. Baker
and Mr. E. H. Warren. The question
was the same: as that offered for the
intercollegiate contest, “Resolved, That
the United States should annex the
Hawaiian Islands.” The speakers had
the option of, sides, but most of them
spoke on the affirmative. The success-
ful contestants were Charles Grilk, ’08,
J. A. Keith, Sp., and W. Morse, 1900,
with P. G. Carleton, ’99, as alternate.
Grilk is, in popular estimation, the best
debater in the University, having been
a member of a successful team against
Princeton. He was also an alternate in
the Yale debate two years ago. Morse
was the best speaker on the Harvard
Freshman team last year that won from
Yale. Keith is a new man, but is an
effective debater.
FIRST INTER-CLUB DEBATE.
At the first inter-club debate between
the Forum and Union held last Friday
evening, the subject of the Harvard-
Yale debate was discussed, the Union
supporting the affirmative. The debate,
in spite of a large number of speakers,
proved a poor one and the judges with-
held their decision. ine date for the
Harvard-Princeton debate has been
fixed. It will be held in Cambridge on
May 6th. .
THE UNIVERSITY CLUB MOVEMENT.
The movement in favor of a Univer-
sity Club seems to be gaining strength.
The undergraduates are much in ear-
nest and opinion seems unanimous in
favor of it. Resolutions in approval
have been passed by nearly all the
University organizations. The Hasty
Pudding Club, the head of the social
life of the University, passed resolu-
tions of hearty endorsement and the Pi
Eta, Zeta Psi, Delta Phi, Theta Delta
Chi, Delta Upsilon, Alpha Delta Phi
and Institute of 1770 have followed the
lead of Hasty Pudding. In all, forty-
eight University organizations have
thus far put themselves on record in
favor of the movement, and these in-
clude musical, literary, classical, ath-
letic, religious, scientific, debating,
school and sectional clubs.
TRIBUTE TO JUSTIN WINSOR.
The death of Justin Winsor on the
22d of last month deprived the Univer-
sity of one of its strongest men. The
Harvard Memorial Society has passed
appropriate resolutions in recognition
of his services. As President of the
American Library Association, his in-
fluence has been exerted in a wide
field. The following tribute to him
by the Massachusetts Library Club
gives recognition to the value of his
WA ue ACT CAD
education.
work to librarianship and
throughout the country:
“Standing for many years at the head
of his profession, he united in a re-
markable degree the accurate and ex-
tended learning of the older generation
of librarians with the administrative
force and understanding of the needs of
the hour, which are demanded of the
modern librarian.
“His administration of both the Bos-
ton Public Library and the Harvard
College Library has had its effect on
libraries throughout the country. The
Public Library he brought into vital
contact with the people to a degree not
achieved before and in a way which has
stimulated other libraries. In the Col-
lege Library the influence of his liberal
administration has been not less im-
portant to the library and to college
His readiness to meet the
wants of the Faculty, and to administer
the library in the interest of the elective
system fostered a change in the meth-
ods of study in the University which
would have been impossible without
the co-operation of the Librarian.
“As a bibliographer he worked in
many lines, and as a -historian~ he
has set in order for other students
the materials in the field which he
made his own, and has had the good
fortune to finish a well-rounded task,
beginning with a history of his native
town published nearly fifty years ago,
followed by a history of the city which
learning
- he served, and by a monumental work
on the history of America, supple-
mented by the story of the geographi-
cal discovery of America from the time
of Columbus and his companions till
the occupation of the continent was
won.
“So great was the respect for his
judgment and position that but few of
the larger libraries of the country have
not at some time sought his advice and
profited by his counsel, always freely
given to those who asked it. In his
death we have lost ‘a master and a
friend.’”
J. WEsTON ALLEN.
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Final Trial Debates.
The final trials for the Yale-Harvard
debating team were held Friday even-
ing, November 5, at Osborn. Fifteen
men spoke, eight from the Academic
department, two from Sheffield, two
from the Divinity School and three
from the Law School. The judges
were Professor A. T. Hadley, Judge S.
FE. Baldwin and Prof. W. L. Phelps.
Each speaker was allowed ten minutes.
The order of speaking was as follows:
O. H. Dowell, ’98S.; G. L. Hedges,
‘OO LS. A Sita OT S.; FE
Richardson, 798; B. C. Smith, ’99; G.
M. Ripley, ’98;\H. W. Fisher, ’98; C.
L. Darlington, ’99; C. W. Ferris, ’o08
TS.5 J. KReoGiark, "60> KR.” Briee1g00:
M. Shepard, ’98 L.S.; G. Sumner, 1900
L.o.3 J. Be Meéintyee"9S,- He Bing-
ham, Jr., ’98. Three of the above men
spoke on the affirmative, the remainder
on the negative side.
The four men chosen were: Herbert
Westcott Fisher, ’98, of New Haven,
Conn.; Fred Erwin Richardson, ’08, of
Lancaster, N. H.; John Kirkland
Clark, ’99, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and
aoe A. Jump, ’99 T.S., of Albany,
The Thatcher ptize of seventy-five
dollars, which is awarded that Academic
speaker whom the judges shall deem*
best fitted for an intercollegiate debate,
was awarded to Herbert Westcott
Fisher, ’08.
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Sheffield Junior Elections.
At a meeting of the Junior class of
the Sheffield Scientific School, held. for
the purpose of electing officers for the
year ’97-98, the following men were
elected:
President, Clarence Sidney Verrill of
New Haven, Conn.
Vice-President, James Clark Jeffery
of Chicago, Ill.
Secretary and ‘Treasurer, William
Bladen Lowndes of Cumberland, Md.
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Mr. Lehmann at Harvard.
Mr. R. C. Lehmann, who coached
the Harvard crew last year, arrived in
New York on Wednesday, November
3d, on the steamer Teutonic. He left
at once for Cambridge, where he will
begin the training of the candidates for
next year’s crew. He was met at Har-
‘vard Square by a large number of men
and was heartily cheered. He has the
entire confidence of the University.
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