- COVID-19 Project
- Home
- Archival Material
- College History Projects
- Subject-Based Digital Projects
- Carlisle Indian School Resources
- LGBT History Project
- Three Mile Island (TMI) Resources
- Civil War Resources
- James Buchanan Resources
- Slavery and Abolition in the U.S.
- Russian and Slavic Resources
- AIFS / AIFS Foundation Collection
- Books of Isaac Norris
- Writings by Dickinsonians
- Digital Images on Flickr
- Dickinson @ Internet Archive
Union Philosophical Society Wins Intersociety Debate
Fri., Mar. 15, 1907
In the 16th annual intersociety debate between the Union Philosophical Society (UPS) and the Belles Lettres Society, UPS came out victorious. Each team was well represented and had cheerleaders who prepared special chants for the debate. Attorney Duncan M. Graham, who had been a member of the Belles Lettres Society, acted as the presiding officer. Rev. G. M. Diffenderfer, Professor J. Irvin White, and A.G. Miller, Esq., were the judges. The subject of debate was: "Subject, Resolved, That the United States Government Should Own and Operate the Interstate Railways." The Belles Lettres Society argued for government control of interstate railways while UPS took the opposing side.
Event Type:
Bibliography:
Dickinsonian, Mar. 15, 1907, pg. 1.