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Competitive debate to elect three speakers to represent Harvard in the Sixth Harvard-Yale Debate to occur at New Haven on or about April...
...states that towns, parishes and like legally defined districts, shall have the right to elect their public teachers. This practically excludes the church, for it only has a legal character when connected with some legally constituted society. The church and the parish often vote on different sides, and in all such cases the power is in the hands of the parish as a legal body...
...This idea bids fair to be realized by a project in which the New Harvard Union is now engaged. A circular has been sent by this society to the debating organizations in Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, and other institutions. This circular invites these other debating societies to elect delegates for the purpose of forming a union which then would rapidly be enlarged so as to include more and more of the colleges...
...success of the project seems assured. Yale has pronounced herself in favor of the plan and has elected W. H. Leete and U. E. Thoms, delegates. U. of P. has also elected delegates, and Princeton will elect delegates during the week. The other universities will undoubtedly join the plan. A conference is likely to be held at the Harvard-Princeton debate in Princeton. Harvard's delegates are C. Vrooman and H. C. Metcalf...
...benefit Yale and reduce her opponents. Harvard, with a spirit which all colleges would do well to imitate, begins at home and enacts a series of laws for the purification of Harvard athletics, regardless of the advantages her adversaries might gain by them. As a result Harvard has to elect a substitute to captain her baseball team and her crew is seriously handicapped. But what of that? The victory is Harvard's, whether she win or lose, for she has taken a higher stand and bound herself to a loftier standard which is too genuinely severe in its results...