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...serious and more dignified, used better diction and were far superior in oratory" depends largely upon what meanings he attaches to those terms. If by "outgeneralled their adversaries" he means that the Boston College speakers succeeded in discussing national prohibition rather than the effects and merits of the proposed repeal of the Baby Volstead Act in Massachusetts, he is correct. If by "marshalled arguments more skilfully" he means that Boston College was able to get away without giving specific, comprehensive answers to pertinent questions, asked by the Harvard speakers, he is correct. If "serious and dignified" refer to demeanor, probably...
...arguments centered around six questions demanded of B. C. by the Crimson team to be answered strictly according to the statement of the issue. Despite numerous accusations of being off the point of argument and of not answering these questions, the quick-witted defenders of the repeal replied entirely to the satisfaction of the judges. Wright's clever eight-minute rebuttal seemed to clinch the argument, which up to that point had been wrangled indefinitely...
Last Tuesday night the Princeton debating team was defeated by Harvard debaters favoring the repeal. It being the policy of the debating council to have its members argue only that side of the question in which they believe, tonight different University debaters hope to add to Harvard's success by opposing the wets...
...Norwood audience reversed its own opinion of the Baby Volstead Act last night and declared Harvard a 64 to 50 victor against Princeton on the basis of its ability to advocate the repeal of the Massachusetts prohibition enforcement...
...vote of 65 to 52 in favor of the act itself was cast by the audience but the strength of the Harvard case sufficed to award F. S. Fiechter '32 and Philip Cohen '31 the laurels for superior presentment of the argument. These two men, who up-held the repeal of the amendment against G. W. Oakes '30 and C. H. Kreder '32 of Princeton in the first intercollegiate debate ever held in Norwood, will reverse their arguments when they oppose Boston College in Symphony Hall on Thursday evening on the negative side of the question...