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RCS - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark Diocesan Archives
SJW - St. John's Seminary Archive
EXT - Extracurricular
3 - Other clubs and societies
1 - Literary and debating groups
Repository
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark
Ref No
RCS/SJW/EXT/3/1/1
Title
Debate record book
Date
1892-1894
Level
Item
Description
Signed 'Fr Hooley' inside the front cover. [Fr. Thomas Hooley was the author of the first history of St. John's Seminary, 'A Seminary in the Making', published 1927.]
Topics for debate included 'printing, whether it has, or has not been, a benefit to the human race'; 'whether the Americans were justified in revolting against England, or not'; 'whether Oliver Cromwell's government was a benefit the English people, or not'; 'that Wellington was a greater man than Napoleon, and more worthy of our esteem and admiration'.
Physical Description
Excercise book, 164 x 205 mm.
Album amicorum of George Strachan
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