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...Straton's opponent on Tuesday will be Professor R. C. Givier of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Tufts College, and the question which they will argue is: "Resolved, That the growing tendency toward agnosticism is undermining our social structure." Dr. Straton will uphold the affirmative and Professor Givler will support the negative of the question. The debate will take place at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union...
...there are more modern notables to take their places. Max Keezer, supersleuth, will not soon be forgotten, and the historic remark of Arthur Clement: "The patrol wagon was the only safe place in the Square," will go down through the years even as Mr. Jones's sign. And to uphold professorial traditions, Professor Whitney is strenuously preparing himself against the day when, Professor Merriman's energy failing, the duty of teaching history by action as well as by word will fall upon...
...Hsieh, hailed by representatives of the American press as the "Roosevelt of China", will then mount the rostrum to uphold his well-defined stand of "Hands off China...
...University debaters will meet the team representing the National Union of English Students tonight at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall in the fifth international debate between Harvard and English teams. The University will uphold the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the only effective attitude toward war is an uncompromising pacifism...
...Debating Union for the year, two experienced speakers and two undergraduates will argue. The latter have not yet been announced; the former will be Haya de a Torre, a South American graduate of Oxford who has spoken widely in England and in the United States who will uphold the affirmative, and J. P. Baxter, History Tutor and instructor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, who will support the negative. After the four speakers have finished, the floor will be open to all who may wish to speak...