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...represent the Western University in the East-West debate which is to be held here on Friday evening, May 21. Wendell W. Black, Floyd Toomey and Earl C. Nelson are the debaters chosen to make the transcontinental trip. These three men were on the University of Washington Pacific Coast championship team, which this year defeated the University of Oregon, Leland Stanford and the University of British Columbia, receiving in the decisions 14 out of a possible 18 judges vote. Washington has been concentrating with great success on delivery and polish in oratory, in which they will undoubtedly excel the University...
...College will be added to the Text Book Loan Library at Phillips Brooks House and lent to students for five cents a book. The remainder, together with the magazines, will be given to the American Library Association and will be distributed by them to hospitals, the Army and Navy, Coast Guards, and various reading rooms...
...chosen by the chief of the United States Weather Bureau and sent to study oceanography and weather forecasting at the Bergen Geo-Physical Institute, Bergen, Norway. The candidates represented most of the larger American colleges and universities, and among the Fellows and alternates appointed are students from either coast, from Harvard and California. The Fellows will sail from New York in late spring or early summer, and will spend the summer in travelling about in the countries to which they are appointed, familiarizing themselves with the language, and will begin study at Scandinavian institutions in the fall...
...vote of the University Debating Council the suggestion that the dual inter-coast debate with the University of Washington be transformed into a triangular has been rejected. This decision to keep the debate strictly dual was made partly on the grounds that such a move would detract materially from the east-and-west spirit and partly from the difficulty of giving intensive training to a larger number of men at a time so long after the close of the regular season...
...debate to be held in Boston between the three best speakers from each University. The new plan advocated by the western university would provide, in addition to their trip here, that a college representative of this section of the country be secured to send a team to the Pacific coast. An additional three-man team from this university would debate that college at its home city...