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...Englishmen were handicapped by the loss of K. M. Lindsay, Worcester College, who was taken seriously ill yesterday afternoon. The other members of the Oxford team, Edward Marjoribanks, Christ Church, and M. C. Hollis, Balliol College, were given extra time to make up for their colleague's absence...
...printed on the programs, which, at the conclusion of the speeches, are to be detached and passed to the ushers. The decision will rest on the vote of the audience. The debating schedule of Oxford has included several of the leading American colleges and universities. In each case the Englishmen have taken the affirmative of the proposition that the United States should join the League of Nations. The Harvard debate will conclude the tour of the Oxford team...
...proposed by the English that the debate should be between one American and Two Englishmen on one team and two Americans and one Englishman on the other. The Oxford Union has also proposed that the decision be rendered in accordance with the English method, by vote, not of judges, but of all members of the audience...
...outrageous for that; but played as a tremendous joke with a little serio-comic sentimental trimming, it succeeds admirably. No-one could take the adventures of the unsophisticated young American girl, who leaves her aged husband five minutes after marrying him to chase around the world after a penniless Englishmen, too seriously. The rapid geographical movements of the characters--from Hawaii via Japan, China, the North Pole, and Russia to Canada--are in themselves too preposterous for anything more than an amusing outburst of somebody's dramatic imagination. Unfortunately as played at present, the company is inclined to give...
...Glover has spent many years in India, studying the economic and social problems which are of prime importance there. He is well acquainted with Ghandi, the leader of the Hindu insurrectionists, and also with many of the leading Englishmen. In this way, he knows both sides of one of the great problems of the world today, the Indian situation...