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...thousand people helped Ripon celebrate its claim last week. President Hoover, as honorary chairman, sent Secretary of War James William Good to represent him, to make a speech. The Good speech did not fully uphold Ripon's claim to Republican primacy. Said he: "The party . . . came up, literally, out of the ground, everywhere, in response to a country-wide demand from the people. Events, not men, called it into being...
...enforcement commission. Suggested names: Boston's William H. Lewis, Cleveland's Perry E. Davis, Washington's Municipal Judge James A. Cobb. The President was told that Negroes want an opportunity to disprove the charge that blackamoor drinking habits make it necessary for the South to uphold prohibition...
...Friday, April 12 the Reverend John Roach Stratton D.D., pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. New York City, and V. F. Calverton, editor of "Sex in Civilization", will debate at Symphony Hall. Boston on the question. "Is Religion Necessary to Human Welfare" Dr. Stratton will uphold the affirmative, while Calverton, who is an extreme defender of the modernistic school of thought, will argue the negative...
...question to be under consideration tonight is, "Resolved. That this house favors the Baumes Law". Harvard will uphold the negative side of the question and will be represented by L. E. Becker '32, R. B. Eckels '32, P. C. Reardon '32, and R. H. Simonds '32. There are to be three speeches, limited to ten minutes each with a ten minute rebuttal. A decision will be rendered by three members of the Exeter faculty acting in the capacity of judges...
...Harvard debating team will meet the University of Pennsylvania tonight at 8.15 o'clock in Paine Hall of the Music Building. Harvard will uphold the affirmative of the question, "Resolved, That this house approves the Baumes Law of New York State...