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...Harvard Union held their first debate for the second half-year on Thursday evening, in Sever 11. A fair sized audience listened with interest, and pronounced the debate one of the best which the Union has held this year. The first vote was on the merits of the question: "Resolved, that Wendell Phillips' course in regard to slavery was that of a true statesman," and the result was: affirmative, 22; negative, 30. The debate was then opened for the affirmative by A. Z. Bowen, '85, and he was followed by Merriam, '86, for the negative. Messrs. E. T. Sanford...
Before the Union adjourned a business meeting was held, and these officers were elected for the remainder of this college year: President, C. R. Saunders, '84; vice-president, W. A. Halbert, '85; secretary, E. T. Sanford, '85; treasurer, J. M. Merriam, '86. The last business was to select a question for the next debate, which will be, "Resolved, that the United States government ought to place greater restrictions upon immigration...
...Union College will send two delegates to the New York meeting of the Inter-collegiate Association to renew its membership...
This shuts out such organizations as the Union Boat Club, the Beacon Ball Nine, the Union Lacrosse team, and the Longwood Cricket team. Now the members of many of these organizations are largely graduates of Harvard, and are all to be classed under the head of gentlemen amateurs. As for the question of the expense incurred in competing with these organizations, it is only necessary to say that they are all within the immediate neighborhood of Boston. What reason in the world can have actuated our faculty in passing such a ridiculous resolution, it is hard to discover. But stay...
...Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 P. M. Question: "Resolved, That Wendell Phillips' course in regard to slavery was that of a true statesman...