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...citizens of the community who did both Universities the honor of acting as judges at the recent debate. Mr. Palmer makes the deliberate charge that Governor McCall, Judge De Courcy of our Supreme Judicial Court and Dean Albers of Boston University Law School are "unfair" and "unfitted" for the task which they assumed. The only evidence he adduces to prove this remarkable assertion is the fact that they did not agree with him and he believes that they did not agree with the audience...
...ideas that the Harvard team stood for and who are completely in discord with the principles that the team from the West brings with them, can it be that they can judge such a debate fairly? It seems to me that they are absolutely unfitted for such a task. Why could we have not had judges from Chicago or New York or some place that is under the influence of neither institution, or neither set of principles? It seems that that thought might well bear consideration...
...staff of tutors, moreover, should be doubled. Instead of regarding their tutees as an unimportant side issue and nuisance in their work as instructors in the University, the tutors might well devote the major part of their time to this duty, and become, as the catalogue euphemistically states, not task masters but friends...
President Lowell, together with President Hibben of Princeton, and Dr. Charles R. Mann, chairman of the advisory board of the war plans division, your department, will discuss "The High Education and Its Present Task." President Lowell will speak from the View-point of the graduate school...
...Theatre has finally been chosen as a place for the staging of this debate on the evening of Friday, May 21. The team representing this University will advocate the maintenance of the right of free speech, according to telegraphic negotiations just completed. To the western university will go the task of upholding the affirmative of the question...