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...subject of the debate is: Resolved, That it is worth while for a student to spend four years at an average American college. Harvard will uphold the affirmative. Phillips, one of those selected for the team, was captain of the Exeter debaters who defeated the Harvard Freshmen last year...
Theodore Roosevelt '09, Governor of Porto Rico, is sponsoring the debate with the University of Porto Rico, in which Harvard will uphold the negative of the statement: "Resolved, that this house condemns the growing influence of the United States in the Western Hemisphere...
...Colorado, the captain of the Porto Rican team, is a veteran debater of four years' experience, and has been here before. He and his two colleagues, J. E. Geigel and V. M. Gutierrez, will uphold the affirmative. Opposing them, Harvard will have H. C. Friend '31, G. E. Lodgen '32, and G. F. Oest...
This is the second time within a year that Ann Arbor officials in a desperate attempt to uphold the belief that enforcement is working, have charged, with warrants, into students' rooms. If the mid-western university is like most others, the river is damned for one day and flows for six months...
...other hand, there are definite facts to uphold the Senate in its action. Even the opposition will not deny that there is great suffering in the drought area and among the unemployed. The money that can be gained from voluntary contributions is very limited. The Red Cross expects to raise $10,000,000, but this is a more trifle when compared with the amount required for adequate relief. The government is the only agency which can provide aid on the scale that it is needed. It does not seem reasonable that theoretical arguments whether right or wrong should be allowed...