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...result of the four elimination rounds in the second year inter-club series of the Ames Competition the following clubs have qualified: Parsons, Holmes, Kent-Marshall, Scott, James Bryce, Mansfield-Warren, Taft and Ames-Gray...
...Professor George P. Baker '87, Professor William E. Hocking '01, Professor Thomas Nixon Carver, Professor Charles H. Grandgent '83, Professor F. W. Tussig '79, and many others will be on sale. Professor Bliss Perry's new "Life of Major Higginson" with an interesting autograph, and autographs of Lord Bryce, Ex-Premier Viviani, Miss Julia Marlowe, and Miss Helen Keller will also be offered for sale at the book mart on the Signed Book table, of which Mrs. Frederick Orin Bartlett is to be in charge. Besides these special volumes, a number of this season's books, whether of Radcliffe origin...
...Davis '21, both former presidents of the club will also talk. They will discuss one of the most important features of this year's program of the Liberal Club--namely the instituting of the English system of debating as practised at Oxford and Cambridge. This system, sketched by Lord Bryce in his address at the Union recently, consists of informal debates among the members of the Universities, training them for political life. The first debate under the English system will be held October 18, and the subject will be "Disarmament". It probably will be held in the Living Room...
...Viscount Bryce, in appealing for closer relations between collegiate America and England, called attention to the fact that while America is well represented in the English universities, the number of Englishmen studying here is decidedly smaller. The explanation of this condition is simply the greater effort on the part of the English to attract Americans--the Rhodes bequest, for example...
Reprinted below is an editorial from the Boston Post deploring a "restricted Lord Bryce". Why did the Viscount address fifteen hundred Harvard students when he might, have spoken to--well a mere modest million of Post readers? We do not know and it is none of our business. If we were to hasard a guess it would be that he preformed to "confine his words to a limited number of hearers" and just why he would not do so we have yet to discover. "Was it not a mistake?", asks the Post, as if the Viscount or the University were...