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...sprints, there will be Miller, Brayton, Brookings, and Calvin, who won 56 points in his Sophomore year. In the hurdles, Crawford, Hayes, Withington, and Green will uphold Harvard's supremacy. Middle-distance men include Derrickson, Bliss, Channing, Walker, Marcy, Brayton, Floyd, and Woodward, all of whom were scoring men for last year's Varsity or Freshman teams. Crimson runners should not lose a first place in the distance events, with Captain Scheu, Woodard, Playfair, Pier, Roys, and Webster to take the mile and two-mile. Calvin and Green in the broad-jump; and Woodberry, Schumann, and Dubiel in the pole...
Oxford's choice of a team to uphold the affirmative in Saturday's debate was announced in a telegram received last night by Frederick DeW. Bokman '35, President of the Harvard Debating Council. The text reads: "Following are names of debaters Oxford. First, W. Gordon Murray, President of the Oxford Union Society; second, K. R. F. Steel-Maitland, an ex-President of the Oxford Union Society...
Harvard's team to uphold the negative on the question: "Resolved, That there be an Anglo-American alliance to preserve world peace," will consist of Frederick DeW. Bolman '35, and Gilman Sullivan '36, both of whom, however, have indicated a preference for the affirmative side...
...question was originally proposed by Harvard, with the stipulation that Oxford uphold the negative, but Murray, President of the Oxford Union Society, refused to agree to this, stating that it was a matter of principle for his team to support the affirmative. A question on censorship of news was suggested, but Harvard and Oxford coincided in choosing the negative side of this topic. When Oxford refused to undertake a split team debate. Harvard was forced to accept the negative side of the Anglo-American question...
Certain it was, however, that unemployment insurance was going to be enacted by the new Congress this winter. The great Democratic majority had not only sworn to uphold the President but many of them had taken an additional pledge to vote for unemployment insurance. Yet last week many a Congressman who had taken this double pledge did not really understand what he had promised, thought of "un-employment insurance" as some sort of panacea that would lift the burden of depression unemployment from the U. S. The President showed by his speech that he knew better, knew that it would...