Overheard at the High School Debate Tournament

This President’s Day weekend, young debaters flocked to Cambridge for the 40th annual Harvard National High School Invitational Forensics Tournament. Dressed in pencil skirts and oxford shirts, these high schoolers meant business. In their down time away from judges, however, their speech went unchecked:

"First time at Harvard! Yo-ho!"

-Boy in Greenhouse Cafe

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"I'm going back to the hotel."

-Girl in Science Center Plaza

"But I can't walk alone in Cambridge!"

-Distressed Boy in Science Center Plaza

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"If I encounter theory, I'm running semantics."

-Boy in Radcliffe Yard

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"Why be nervous? None of these people are Harvard students yet."

-Girl in Science Center

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"We're 3-2."

-Girl

"Turn up."

-Boy