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NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1898.
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HIGH TEN EYCK STANDARD.
Eight Chosen out of Thirty-Six
Essays—Speaking ‘To-morrow.
The annual Junior Exhibition and
contest for the TenEyck prizes will be
held to-morrow, Friday afternoon, at
3 o'clock in Battell Chapel. Thirty-
six essays in all were submitted to the
judges, who chose eight from that num-
ber. The decision was not easily
reached, as the judges found a very
high degree of excellence in most all
of the essays. Indeed only one or two
were considered bad.
The Henry James TenEyck prizes
for which the annual competition is held
comes from a fund of $2,600 established
in 1888, in memory of Henry James
TenEyck, ’79.
A likeness of each contestant together
with a brief sketch and his essay sub-
ject will be found in this issue.
Robbins Battell Anderson of Duluth,
Minn., chose “The Abolitionist Ora-
tors” for his subject. He prepared for
College at the Duluth Central High
School. Since coming to Yale he has
had several contributions in the Courant
and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa,
getting his election on a Philosophical
Oration.
Hiorace Jewell Fenton is a native of
Connecticut, being born in Willimantic.
He also chose ‘‘The Abolitionist Ora-
tors,” as the subject for his essay. Mr.
HENRY ROBINSON SHIPMAN.
Fenton prepared for College at the
Willimantic School. In that school he
was Chairman of the weekly paper,
Captain of the football team and a mem-
ber of his Freshman glee club.
George Dana Graves was born in
Manchester, N. H., and prepared for
College at the Colby Academy, New
London, N. H. He was an alternate
for the Yale-Harvard Freshman Debate,
and won the Wyllys Betts prize for ex-—
cellence in English composition in his
Sophomore year. His subject for the
TenEyck was “Popular American Feel-
ing against England.”
Alfred Bates Hall of Chester, Conn.,
took for his subject, “The Trans-
Siberian Railway.” He prepared for
College at the Middletown High School
and also under a private tutor. At the
High School he was the Salutatorian of
his Class. He was a member of his
Freshman glee club, and entered Phi
Beta Kappa on a Philosophical Ora-
tion last Spring. :
Isham Henlerson of Louisville, Ky.,
prepared for College at the Hopkins
Grammar School, New Haven, Conn.
He is a present editor of the Yale Lit.,
and is also the winner of the Lit. prize
which was offered for the. best story
from an undergraduate in the Academic
Department. “Victor Hugo” is the
subject of Mr. Henderson’s essay.
John Pease Norton comes from Los
Angeles, Cal., having prepared at the
Los Angeles High School, and the
Hartford High School. In Freshman
year he won the Herbert Scholarship,
the Second Berkeley premium, the De-
ALFRED BATES HALL.
Forest mathematical prize, and the
first McLaughlin prize in English. In
his Sophomore year he took the second
DeForest prize and received honorable
mention for the Wyllys Betts prize. He
is a member of Phi Beta Kappa on
Philosophical Oration. He took “Vic-
tor Hugo” as his TenEyck subject.
Howard Chandler Robbins, Spring-
field, Mass., whose essay is on “The
Abolitionist Orators,’ prepared for
College at the Hamilton Schoal, Phila-
delphia, Penn. He was a substitute on
last year’s chess team and is a present
editor of the Yale Courant, and a
member of Phi Beta Kappa, Philosophi-
cal Oration.
Henry Robinson Shipman of Hart-
ford, Conn., chose ‘The Jesuit Mis-
sionaries in Canada” for his subject.
He prepared for College at the Hart-
ford High School. At the end of his
Freshman year he won the Berkeley
Premium for excellence in Latin Com-
position, and last year was a speaker for
the Sophomore Declamation Prize. He
is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
‘Intercollegiate Gun Clab.
A meeting of representatives of the
Gun Clubs of Harvard, University of
Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell,
Princeton and Yale was held in New
York on March 25th, for the purpose of
organizing an Intercollegiate Associa-
tion.
It was decided to form such an Asso-
ciation and to hold two contests an-
nually, in the Autumn and Spring. The
team is to consist of five men, and the
college winning three times to receive a
cup. The first match will be held on
May 1. The officers elected were:
President, Mr. Lunt, Harvard; First
Vice-President, Mr. Coffin, Columbia;
Second Vice-President, Mr. Payne,
Princeton; Secretary, Mr. Oglesbay,
University of Pennsylvania; Treasurer,
Mr. Spears, Yale.
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Bequest to Yale.
The will of Major John C. Parsons,
late of Hartford, admitted to probate,
March 21, contains a bequest of $1,000
to Yale University, to be used for
general purposes, at the- discretion -of
the Corporation. The will is dated
August 6, 1897, and appoints Francis
Parsons, his son, executor.
A NOTABLE VICTORY.
Yale Advances Her Standard of De-
bate—Prineceton Fights Hard—
Accepts Defeat Gracefully.
Yale again gave proof of her powers
in debate by defeating Princeton in the
fourth annual debate held at Princeton
March 25th. After the victory over
Harvard last December, Yale’s debaters
looked forward with unusual interest
to the Princeton contest. If they could
succeed in winning in this also, Yale’s
preéminence in debating for this year
would be clearly established. More-
over it would put Yale and Princeton
on an equal footing; each with a record
of two victories. In the light, too, of
recent attacks on Yale’s English De-
partment, a debating victory was
eagerly anticipated, as a proof,—as it
was put at the banquet—that they know
how at least to speak English at Yale.
For these reasons the result of Friday
night’s contest was peculiarly gratify-
ing.
The victory was a notable one in
other ways. A tradition had been
growing up in debating circles, of late
years, that it is impossible for the col-
lege supporting the affirmative to win
a debate. Never before last Friday has
Yale won, on the affirmative. Indeed,
in the twelve contests in which Yale
has participated this is only the third
that has not been awarded to the nega-
tive. In ’95, both Princeton and Har-
vard won from Yale, though the latter
had the negative. Since then, and this
means since the debating renaissance
at Yale, the negative side has always
won. Last year Yale tried to support
the affirmative against Princeton; and
her chain of three successive victories,
which began in 796, was broken. It
was, therefore, with a good deal of
hesitation that Yale again chose the
affirmative. The event proved the
wisdom of her choice. Her debaters
showed that they have at last learned to
set up a positive position and maintain
it against all attacks. In fact the
whole strength of Yale’s position, as it
had been shown in the practice debates,
did not come out in the contest.
HOWARD CHANDLER ROBBINS.
Princeton directed. the brunt of her at-
tack, not against Yale’s proposal, but
against her interpretation of the ques-
tion. ais
Still another decided step in Yale's
debating progress was marked by the
victory. Heretofore, Yale has excelled
her ‘opponents in logic and team work,
but has been inferior im points of lan-
guage and elocution. Her speakers,
while arguing well, failed to make a
favorable impression on the audience.
In. this debate Yale proved herself
fully equal and, in the. minds of many,
superior to Princeton, in effectiveness
of presentation, without losing any of
her former strength of argument or
team play.
About a dozen Yale men accom-
panied the team to Princeton. One of
the pleasantest features of the debate
was the genuine courtesy with which
Princeton treated her zuests. A Yale
flag was floating on the flag pole in
front of the Princeton Inn, where the
team was entertained. At the debate
each speaker was cheered as he rose;
JOHN PEASE NORTON.
and the applause at the close was given
-as generously to the Yale as to the
Princeton representatives. In many
other little ways Princeton showed a
hospitality which will not soon be for-
gotten by those who enjoyed it; a hos-
pitality all the more noticeable, because
it was not lessened in any degree after
defeat. Princeton again showed no less
unmistakably than after the football
game last Fall, that she can accept de-
feat in a spirit of true manliness and
courtesy. —
The debate was unusually spirited
and interesting, despite the failure to
meet squarely, owing to the difference
of interpretation. Alexander Hall was
filled to overflowing. It is estimated
that over two thousand were present.
The large gallery was entirely filled
with students, who whiled away the
time before the debate, and pending
decision, with cheers and songs. __
Ex-President Cleveland presided.
His introductory speech was brief—be-
ing only a word or two in explanation
of the method of choosing the subject
and conducting the debate. Ex-Post-
master General W. L. Wilson, Presi-
dent of Washington and Lee College,
announced the decision of the judges,
who were in session nearly an hour.
Their decision, he said, had been ex-
ceedingly hard to reach, owing to the
remarkable closeness of the debate.
The other judges were Hon. Everett P.
Wheeler of New York, and Prof. J.-F.
Jameson of Brown University.
THE DEBATE ANALYZED.
The subject of the debate was: “Re-
solved, That National Party Lines
should be Disregarded in the Choice of
Councils and Administrative Officials
in American Cities.” Yale supported
the affirmative. Unfortunately there
had again been a carelessness in the
wording of the subject; so that it ad-
mitted of two quite distinct interpreta-
tions. Yale argued on one interpreta-
tion, Princeton on the other. Their
arguments clashed solely on the ques-
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