Records 1904-1906.

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Records 1904-1906.

This folder contains materials that Jackson collected while he was secretary-treasurer of the Colorado Intercollegiate Oratorical Assn., ca. 1904-1906. They include 10 pages of signatures of persons who subscribed for membership in the University's Oratorical and Debating Assn., correspondence to and from Jackson and the state and University associations, and debating associations' handbills, tickets, programs, list of judges, constitutions and cancelled checks.

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Boulder Public Library

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Jackson, Thomas Hoopes, 1883-

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Smith, Tennyson.

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Oratorical and Debating Association of the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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According to Glory Colorado!, William E. Davis' history of the University of Colorado (1965; p. 53), student activities in about the 1890s "centered around the literary and debating societies and social clubs." He adds (p. 131-132) that the University Debating Club, formed in 1892, was one of the prominent organizations on campus. It met weekly in the Junior Law room of the Hale building and gave its members experience in debate and extemporaneous speaking. Davis (Glory ...

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Interstate Oratorical Association

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Colorado State Oratorical Association

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