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Again, the Council intends no unfairness to Yale or Princeton. No written agreements exist between these universities about debating. Each university has always been willing to meet any representatives whom the others might send. Two years ago, Harvard limited the number of graduates to three without asking Yale or Princeton to do the same. We simply felt that it was for our own good. Statistics do not bear out the statement that the mere presence of graduates produces unfairness. Since intercollegiate debating began here, Harvard has used 20 graduates and Yale 22 in Harvard-Yale debates. In Harvard-Princeton debates...
Interest in debating here is feeble in proportion to the attention it merits. A sad but evident fact! Consequently its value as a link between graduate and undergraduate life is doubtful. Yet if it can exist only through admitting graduates--which is rather incredible--by all means keep it as it is. Better debating with graduates included than no debating. Whatever the final settlement, however, the facts remain that intercollegiate competition of teams under widely different eligibility rules is bound to be unsatisfactory to all parties concerned, and that there exist at present inconsistencies between the triumvirate debaters...
...Whether or no there may not exist a defect in this quality of fellowship, in a possible tendency towards a too great suppression of individual personality through conformity to common college standards, is a question a newcomer is hardly competent to answer. One thing he can unhesitatingly affirm is his keen appreciation of the spirit of fellowship as contrasted with the spirit of individualism...
...years of 18 and 22, the natural course for a young man to take is that of doubt in his religion. Make Chapel attendance voluntary and he holds back but make it compulsory and he attends, clearing his doubts and returning refreshed. It is necessary that this doubt should exist and men come forth from it strengthened...
...trust that this statement will serve to correct any false impressions which, as would appear from your editorial, may exist in the University regarding these two important branches of our public service and that an increasingly large number of Harvard men may become interested from year to year any may go up for the examinations in Washington with the intention of adopting one or the other of the services as their life's work. J.C. GREW '02 United States Embassy, Berlin, Germany...