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...University team, consisting of E. J. Metzdorf '26, F. J. Otis '27, and I. J. Fain '27, upheld the affirmative and based the main argument for abolishing capital punishment on the barbarous civilization which requires an eye for an eye and a death for a death. Metzdorf traced the evolution of punishment from the days when death was administered for all crimes to the present, when it is imposed for only three. He dwelt on these three, murder, treason and rape, with great forces showing how it is merely vengeance which calls for the death of the offender...
...University affirmative team will consist of E. J. Metzdorf '26, F. J. Otis '27, I. J. Fain '27, and S. B. McGovran '28. The Pennsylvania negative team will comprise Harold Bean, Daniel Debrier, and William McCahan...
...following men were retained in the trials last night for the debate on May 2 with Columbia and Pennsylvania, laurence Dimsdale '26, M. N. Drake '28, W. P. Exton Jr. '26,I. J. Fain '27, S. B. McGavran '28, E. J. Metzdorf '26, George Staff '26, and J. E. Stocker...
...shall sunder," "Thou'dst best beware," "I know not what I'm saying or what I'm doing" were hackneyed when Alfred Lord Tennyson was a litle boy in Lincolnshire and completely outmoded long before he was an old man in Aldworth. Such archaisms as "dight," "say him nay," "fain," such clicheés as "balmy breezes," "surly portals" are all shoddy stuff. They are no easier to sing than good English. Yet the fault was not Translator Meltzer's, for the general run of librettos are concocted out of just such snips, snails, puppydogs' tails of poetry...
Lewis Hyman Weinstein '27 of Portland, Maine, and Irving Jay Fain '27 of Providence, Rhode Island, have been appointed second assistant managers of the debating team. Fain is to have charge of the class debates. These appointments are subject to the approval of the Debating Council...