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...Debating team, and to assign the Council a meeting place of their own. Edward M. Rowe '27, who has been coaching the debaters without pay, was unanimously nominated for this directorship. The Council also made a suggestion in regard to a meeting place, but what this was, Asa E. Phillips, Jr. '34, and Robert Breckenridge '34, officers of the Council, would not divulge...
Announcement of prizes to be awarded Freshman debaters this year was made Friday by Asa E. Phillips, Jr. '34, president of the Debating Council. The awards, given by T. Jefferson Coolidge to stimulate undergraduate interest in debating and public speaking, consist of six silver medals and a cash prize of $50, the former to be given to those taking part in the triangular debate with Yale and Princeton, and the latter to be given for the best speech delivered in the tryouts for this meet...
Those who have been retained for further decision are Asa E. Phillips '34, Seymour M. Peyser '34, Malcolm H. Hoffman '34, Frederick deW. Bolman '35, Gordon C. Streeter '34, and Richard M. McLean...
...members of the Harvard Debating Council have been chosen for the debate against Princeton on Monday evening, November 27, according to an announcement made yesterday by Asa E. Phillips, Jr. '34, president of the Council. At that time, the Harvard representatives will travel to Meriden, Conn., for the first debate of the year. The subject is: Resolved: That the disadvantages of the National Recovery Act outweigh its advantages...
...Sued. Asa Yoelson (Al Jolson), mammy-singer; by Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist; for $500,000, the extent to which Colyumist Winchell said he was damaged when he was struck and felled last month in Hollywood's Legion Stadium by Singer Yoelson, disturbed over reports that Winchell's new scenario (Broadway Through a Keyhole) was discreditable to his wife, Ruby Keeler (TIME, July...