Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Three debates, covering two distinct fields of research, are to be given this month by the Harvard Debating Council, faculty adviser Cellan Ufford '19 announced last night. The first of these will cover the question: "Resolved, That this house views with approval the abolition of Extra-territoriality by China," when the University team opposes the Chinese Debating Council in Ford Hall at Boston on next Wednesday...
Coach E. M. Rowe '27 has retained five men for the Chinese Extrality question. It is hoped that much source information will be imparted in this debate as some of the team members have just returned from a trip abroad. The men are: J. M. Swigert '30 (Chairman), A. A. Windecker '32, R. M. Alt '32, and W. E. Esber...
...Everett Hall in Norwood, when Harvard will debate Princeton, and again on February 20 when Boston College will be the Council's opponent. This will take place at 8 o'clock in the evening in the Boston Symphony Hall. Seven men have been retained for the Baby Volstead Question. They are: G. W. Harrington '30 (Chairman), P. C. Reardon '32, R. B. Eckles '32, Dwight Cooke '31, A. B. Rood '31, F. C. Fiechter '32, and P. H. Cohen '32. Schedules for the remainder of the season, will be announced at a later date...
...William Ellery Leonard at Wisconsin is a fight that comes perilously close to the foundations of American higher education and it is also a fight that will have its echoes and reverberations in all American colleges for some months to come. The controversy as it started was over the question of "How much power and jurisdiction has a dean of men (or of women) over the students' most intimate personal affairs?" And this of course carried with it the implication: "How much power do the deans actually need under the American system of education...
...view the question in its general aspect, however, we cannot help but think that the American college student needs a good deal more supervision than do his fellow students in England and on the continent. While in American students may go to college primarily to learn something--most of them do not know exactly what--in the European schools students are there only to learn. Learning and culture are not their primary objects for higher education, they are their only objects. The American college then is a three-sided institution where study, activities and social life all have their place...