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Ted Cruz Showed Eloquence, and Limits, as Debater at Princeton ...  Apr 22, 2015 ... PRINCETON, N.J.  By the time he was a senior at Princeton University in ... and Mr. Panton is kept at the American Whig-Cliosophic Society at Princeton. ... In the society's debates, Mr. Cruz represented the conservative, or Clio, ... When an Amherst team argued at a tournament in 1989 that Ricky Ricardo...
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American WhigCliosophic Society - Wikipedia  The American WhigCliosophic Society (Whig-Clio) is a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University ... During these years he maintained close contact with students, encouraging their more constructive activities. ... Whig and Clio, like similar literary societies at other American colleges, were the main focus...
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History - The American Whig-Cliosophic Society - Princeton University  During these years he maintained close contact with students, encouraging their ... The American Whig Society was born on June 24, 1769, and the Cliosophic ... Whig and Clio, like similar literary societies at other American colleges, were the ... of speech and debate while serving as Speaker (now President) of the Society.
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Princeton University's Whig-Cliosophic Society offers tips to ...  Oct 16, 2012 ... The American Whig-Cliosophic Society is the nation's oldest and most ... PRINCETON BOROUGH  It is a rare autumn in America when debate rivals football and foliage as the ... In fact, as members of the university's American Whig-Cliosophic Society ... That's something you will use all the time, he said.
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Eating clubs at Princeton University - Wikipedia  The eating clubs at Princeton University are private institutions resembling both dining halls ... Eating clubs arose from dining societies, in which Princeton students ... of the societies led to their merger into the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, ... While Cottage chose to coeducate during the intervening years, Ivy Club and...
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Princeton University - Wikipedia  Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton was .... During the summer of 1783, the Continental Congress met in Nassau Hall, making Princeton the country's capital for four months. Over the...
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Princeton University - Wikipedia  Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, .... In 1902, Woodrow Wilson, graduate of the Class of 1879, was elected the 13th president of the university. Under Wilson, Princeton introduced the...
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Daniel Webster's Friendships - Dartmouth College  This is not intended to be a canonical list of the friendships Webster made ... had rooms adjoining; and, in order to facilitate their social enjoyments, they ... Records indicate that Simonds was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the United Fraternity. ... Thomas Merrill was the valedictorian of the Class of 1801 and would...
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John Witherspoon - Educator - Biography.com  The sixth president of Princeton University, John Witherspoon was the only college president to sign the Declaration of Independence. ... vocal advocate for colonial independence and served New Jersey in the Continental Congress. ... He soon went to the parish of Beith and became the local minister, moving to Paisley in...
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The Whig Party - United States History  The role of The Whig Party in the history of the United States of America. ... States, Native Americans, the Supreme Court and his use of presidential war powers. ... was taken from English politics, the name of a faction that opposed royal tyranny. ... Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were the unquestioned luminaries of the...
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The American Experience | The Duel | People & Events | Aaron Burr  His father, Reverend Aaron Burr, was president of the College of New Jersey, which ... Esther Edwards Burr, was the daughter of theologian Jonathan Edwards,...
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The American Experience | The Duel | People & Events | Alexander ...  On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met on the dueling grounds at ... The first major skirmish was in 1791, when Burr successfully captured a United States Senate seat from Philip Schuyler, Hamilton's powerful father-in-law.
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Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle ...  Editorial Reviews. Review. "A detailed, rigorous, yet highly readable and engaging story. ... Yet the circumstances around "The American Scholar" oration--his first great ... Phi Beta Kappa address, Emerson agonized over compromising his sense of ... for Emerson to fulfill the expectations of his audience and Alma Mater.
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Full text of "The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings and Addresses ...  Article 1, The name of this Association shall be the Scotch-Irish Society of America. ..... Princeton was set agoing without the authority of the British government. ..... transformed and lost largely in the blue, and Geneva's lake became the blue lake ...... His love of music and intimate knowledge of the German composers gave...
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Amos Bronson Alcott - Wikipedia  Amos Bronson Alcott was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an ... By the summer of 1823, Alcott returned to Connecticut in debt to his father, .... The school was briefly famous, and then infamous, because of his original ... Beginning in 1836, Alcott's membership in the Transcendental Club put him in...
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Whig Party (United States) - Wikipedia  The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. Four Presidents belonged to the Party while in office. Along with the rival Democratic Party, it was central to the Second Party System from the early ... John Tyler succeeded to the Presidency after Harrison's death in 1841, but...
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American WhigCliosophic Society - Wikipedia  The American WhigCliosophic Society (Whig-Clio) is a political, literary, and debating society at Princeton University and the oldest debate union in the United States. Its precursors, the American Whig Society and the Cliosophic Society, were founded at Princeton in 1769 and 1765 by ... Whig and Clio, like similar literary societies at other American colleges, were...
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Why Abraham Lincoln Was a Whig - University of Michigan  He joined the party as a young man, as soon as it was formed, and became ... Zachary Taylor, elected president on the Whig ticket in 1848 .... It was clear to him that "the world would be vastly benefitted by a total and final banishment from it of...
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Ivy Halls of Princeton Once Rested at Broad and Williams Streets ...  Mar 28, 1996 ... ... opened its doors in Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth) in 1747. The Rev. Jonathan Dickinson was elected as its first president. ... Classes were held in the church parsonage beginning each morning at 7 a.m. ... More than two centuries later, Newark has again become an important ''college town'' as home to...
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Benjamin Disraeli - New World Encyclopedia  Aug 20, 2013 ... He was a friend of the first Jewish member if the House of Lords, Baron ... Disraeli did much to promote a fuller democracy in Britain (the Reform Act, 1867), ... during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig ... The Earl of Derby Prime Minister 1852, 1858-1859, 1866-1868.
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History of Princeton University - Wikipedia  The history of Princeton University spans 268 years since it was founded in 1746. Princeton .... It could be cultivated in his students or deduced through the development of ..... and eventual transfer to Harvard University during his freshman year. ... the 1945-50 era, and the 1969 decision to admit women as undergraduates.