Pacific University Debate Team

Title

Pacific University Debate Team

Description

A photograph of the 1908 Pacific University Debate Team. The photograph appears to be from the Pacific University yearbook, The Heart of Oak. The caption with the photograph details a triangular debate between Pacific University, Willamette University and Whitman held on February 21st, 1908. The topic of the debate was Japanese immigration. The Pacific debate team beat Willamette, but fell to Whitman by a 2-1 decision. The members in the photograph are identified as Herbert Hayes Arnston, a 1908 graduate, James Richard Ward, a 1909 graduate, and William Elisha Gwynn, a 1907 graduate. This photograph appears in a scrapbook compiled by Frances B. Clapp, a 1908 Pacific University graduate.

Date

1908

Is Part Of

Frances B. Clapp Scrapbook (MS.11)

Language

English

Identifier

PUA_MS11_138

Subject

Student activities

Students--Oregon

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Spatial Coverage

Forest Grove, Oregon, United States

Bibliographic Citation

Pacific University Debate Team, Frances B. Clapp Scrapbook (1908), 107, Pacific University Archives, Forest Grove, Oregon.

Source

Pacific University Archives

Type

Still Image