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...hostility of the sporting writers is natural enough. The Presidents' agreement threatens their bread and butter because it is a blow at the growing commercialism and publicity of college athletics. Also, any rumored "split" between the so-called "Big Three" makes much better "copy" than any ungarnished summary of the athletic affairs of Harvard University...
...Union was formed for the purpose of debate, and was a conscious attempt to imitate the Oxford Union. The first Harvard Union like many similar organizations which were subsequently formed finally disappeared, only to be resurrected about 1881. This latter society was reorganized two decades later, and after a split the two wings were known as the New Harvard Union and the Wendell Phillips Club, respectively. The clubs were friendly rivals in debate. The plan of these debates was to have but two prepared speeches from each side at the conclusion of which the meeting was thrown open for debate...
...expected that in any question brought up for debate, the members of the two clubs will split solidly. Those in charge believe that there will usually be a minority disagreeing with the side its club is upholding just as in legislative bodies. This minority will be encouraged to bring forward its own views and to vote in accordance with its convictions. It is felt that in this way the Debating Union will encourage to the highest degree intellectual honesty...
...strictly amateur, and an invitation to participate has been sent to President Harding, who has had a fine record in ringing the peg out behind the office of the "Marlou Star." Since Tex himself is an avowed Democrat this is reported either as an indication of a coming party split or as a move for coalition against the farm bloc. It may be that the real motive is gate-receipts...
...English elections have returned a substantial Conservative majority, and the talk will be, as the Times puts it, "of quiet recuperation and of efforts to rebuild and enlarge English industry and commerce". The gains to Labor are due to split votes, the Daily Mail claims. While there is in England no turning away from socialism found wanting, there is nevertheless a decided reaction against Lloyd George liberalism...