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With a record of six victories and three defeats against nine opponents last fall, the Debate Council is looking forward to a larger schedule and an increased membership next term, according to a statement this week by Robert M. Beren '47, president...
...Beren, the Council was successful last term in engagements with Middlebury, Clark, Tufts, Dartmouth, M.I.T., and Boston University, but bowed to Yale, McGill, and Holy Cross. In addition, a team of Freshmen from the Council defeated Andover Academy...
Contests have already been scheduled for the spring term with Temple, University of California, Columbia, West Point, Princeton, Brown, Amherst, Williams, and the University of Pennsylvania, Beren announced. Several other debates are being arranged for, he added. The spring session will end, as usual, with the traditional Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate at the end of April...
...Beren revealed that a tentative schedule for the contests had been drawn up by a committee composed of one representative from each of the eight Houses, and four members of the Debate Council. The first round will start early in February. "There will probably be two contests each week from then on, or as long as the student body shows interest," he said...
...contests will be open to all residents of the Houses, Beren added, emphasizing that the whole project was "an attempt to foster student interest in debating." No members of the Debate council will be allowed to participate, although they may act as chairmen of the discussions. Judges will usually be residents of the two Houses competing...