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...meeting of the Debating Council last night Dwight Westley Chapman Jr. '27 of Wilmette, III., was elected president of the Council for the coming year. He was recently awarded the Coolidge Medal as the leading University debater...
Some months ago "Vanity Fair" satirized the decay of free institutions in America. Passed over lightly at the time, the satire is brought vividly to mind by the widely heralded trial of Gerald Chapman. The press reports are almost universally in a vein to create the hostile public opinion by which juries are so easily swayed. The "New York Times" even states that Chapman's diabolically superhuman mind has, since his capture, mastered criminal law so thoroughly that he is now directing his own defense, and will concoct the subtle lies that will be stated in his favor...
...Coolidge prize of $100, for the most skill and initiative in the preparation of a debate, was awarded to D. W. Chapman '27, the first speaker for Harvard...
...Paine Hall of the Music Building, the University debaters contested with Yale, upholding the affirmative side of the subject: "Resolved, That this house views with alarm the present tendency of Eastern colleges to stress a standard of business and professional utility in college education." D. W. Chapman '27, Barrett Williams '28, and D. L. Dickson '27 were the Harvard speakers. The Yale team was composed of J. G. Becker, E. L. Richards, and J. McH. Hopkins...
...teams are as follows: Harvard affirmative, D. W. Chapman '27, Barrett Williams '28, D. L. Dixon '27, and J. F. Davidson '27 and M. N. Drake '28, alternates. Harvard negative, J. R. Creel '27, E. G. Wesson '25, E. A. Smith '26. The alternates will be E. J. Metzdorf '26 and F. W. Lorenzen '28. Yale negative, J. G. Becker '26, E. L. Richards '25, J. McH. Hopkins '25. Yale affirmative, E. G. Jenkins '27, J. C. Hume '25, B. Davenport '26. Princeton affirmative, B. Dunham '26, C. A. Howard '27, J. P. Lee '25, V. V. Ravi-Booth...