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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Founded through a bequest of the late Dean James Barr Ames '68 LL.B. '70, the competition is now entering its eighteenth year. The bequest provides for prizes of $300 and $200 respectively to go to the winners and runners-up of the series of arguments. Since but four clubs are eligible for the semi-finals, the first two years are occupied in selecting the best clubs of a large field by the process of elimination on the basis of point evaluation...
Harvard University is a liberal institution as American universities go, but it is a hundred million dollar corporation and has all the prejudices of one. The Harvard Socialist Club has been victimized and discriminated against on every possible occasion...
...pain in the neck." He pointed out that behind all this "preposterous censorship" were not the Lowells and the Cabots and God, but the Caseys and the Kellys; however, he added, "the Cabots and that crowd are so scared of a left wing that they won't go near one, even if it's on a chicken...
...contact it would be a number of years before Harvard could arrange a full schedule for a light weight eleven if it decided to have one. Time would have to be taken to bring the new idea to the attention of other colleges and more time would have to go by while they were considering it. If, on the other hand, there existed today some athletic conference made up of New England colleges, the whole matter could be discussed thoroughly and either approved or rejected within a much shorter comparative time. That such a conference does not exist today seems...
...endure the thought of being defeated in athletics by Yale. The Harvard freshman of 1929 takes the School of Business in his stride, but when he sings "three cheers for Harvard, and down with Yale" he means it with all the fervor of his soul. Dr. Butler did not go into this phase of the development of American education, but doubtless it has manifested itself to him. N. Y. Times...