Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-21
BOWDOlN'S DEeATERS.
The Team Which Will Meet Amherst,
Thursday Evening.

Brunswick, Ne, May 20.-(SpeciaD.
The intercollegiate debate with Am
herst will be held in Memorial hall,
Thursday evening, ana the three
Bowdoin debaters, selected after
series Of trial ana preliminary de-
bates are ready for the fray. The
question to be debated is: Resolved.
That Reconstruction on the Basis OF
Negro Suffrage Was an UnWise Poll
cy." The question is . very interest
ing one. 1t involves study Of the
political and social conditions at the
close of the Civil War, as we'll as Il
consideration, in certain aspects OF the
results of those conditions, including
the great race problem of today. Am
herst has the affirmative and Bowdoin
the negative. The judges, it is under
stood, will be three members of the
Harvard faculty.
The representatives. of Amherst will
be james l.. Ford, '02, of st. Louis
Jason \. Pierce, '02, of Broclton,
Mass. and Albert w. Atwood, 'O3, of
New York, with Matthew Van Sicien,
'02, of Cornwall. n. Y, as alternate.
The Rowduin team is made of G. Row
land Walker, '02, of Portland, Farms
worth G. Marshall. 'O3, Of Portland. and
Daniel L. Gross, o.. of Blue Hill, with
Il. :. Anthoinc, '02, Of Portland, rs al
tcrnatc. Mr.. Gross has been kept out
some by illness but is now here and
will be in the debate. The men have
prepared for the debate entirely with
out faculty or other assistance and
will win or lose on their own merits AZ
debaters. This was the agreement
with Amherst as it was felt that the
IL bate should be wholly an under
graduate affair.
C. Rowland Walker comes from
Portland. where he graduated in 1898
from the High school. taking one 81
the Brown medals. Before being elect
ed to the debating team he had already
received college hOnors of various ma :
lures At the enl Of last year he was
taken into Phi Beta Kappa. the schol-
arShip society standing second in his
class. He has taken part in the
Sophomore. Junior and '6S prize speak
ing contests, was class orator last Ivy
day and will be class orator the coming
Glass day. Last year he was on tn"
editorial board of the Quill, the literary
monthly. In athletics he was captain
OF 1902 class team for two years, and
last year was manager of the varsity
track team. He has won the Brown
memorial prize for three successive
years. He is Il member of the Delta
Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
Farnsworth 6. Marshall originally
came from Cherry1iel1 and was a grad
uate of Bucksport academy. He has
since taken up his residence in Port
land, where during "a large part of his
college course he has been also en-
gagged in business acting as manager
of the Portland Merchants Protective
association. Marshall distinguished
himself last year by winning the big
gest prize in college the Smythe Math-
ematical prize of 5000. Besides being .
phenomenon in mathematics, he also
ranks high in his class in genera
studies. Marshall is at present man
ager Of the weekly college publication
the Orient. He is q member of the
Delta Epsilon fraternity.
Daniel |. Gross, a native and resident
of Blue Hill, Maine. came to Bowdoir
in the class of 1902 from Thornton
academy where he had already wor
distinction for himself in scholastic
lines. Since being in Bowdoin he has
already won many hcnors and has al
ways been held in bigh esteem and re-
spect by his fellow students. He has
always ranked high in his classes and
won the class of is prize speaking con-
test-the award being given to men,
bers of each class for the best written
and delivered article.