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Considering the fact that one University team in an attempt to uphold the liquor traffic in the recent intercollegiate debate was battered until it had, so to speak, not a keg to stand on, while its more soberly-inclined colleague went down utterly before the forces of booze, news of the generous distribution of gold and silver medals among the two unhappy teams is astonishing to say the least, besides giving color to the rumors that Harvard is fast becoming Prussianized. We are told that the Germans were accustomed to stimulate their troops after a "strategic retreat" by a wholesale...
...Cambridge, Princeton, and New Haven, teams representing the three universities will meet in the 11th triangular debate, on the question: "Resolved, that the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution should be abolished." In the contest with Yale, which will take place in Sanders Theatre, the University will uphold the negative side of the subject. Mayor Andrew J. Peters '95 of Boston will preside and the judges will be H. C. Attwill, Attorney General of Massachusetts; Justice J. D. McLoughlin, of the Superior Court, Boston; and C. W. Parmenter, Head Master of the Mechanics Arts High School, Boston...
...University is represented at Princeton by three speakers who uphold the affirmative of the question. They are: Slater Washburn '20, of Worcester, Mass.; Rudolf Protas Berle '19, of Cambridge; and Jacob Tutun '20, of Chelsea. Mathew James Donner '21, of Passaic, N. J., will act as alternate. Princeton has an experienced team composed of three men who have spoken in two previous debating contests...
...establishment of military and naval units in all the colleges and universities of the country is merely enlarging the scope of service for trained men. If we attribute our advances to the institutions under which we live, then we must be ready to uphold those institutions for what the advances are worth. Preparedness to defend with arms is the natural complement to ability to promote with judgment and foresight, and the man who develops the one at the expense of the other, the man who builds up a beautiful country without providing for its security, evidences a surprising lack...
...American spirit of co-operation and maintenance of high standards in all aspects of life has been brought home by the war to all classes, including the boys of the slums. Now that the war has ceased it is necessary to uphold these ideals that the impetus of stirring times has produced...