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...Holbrook, in "Taps for the Old Army," proposes to ensure adequate officers for a new army, and at the same time to avoid militarism, by making West Point exclusively a school for reserve officers who desire, to continue their military career after having won commission in the various R. O. T C.'s. Mr. Holbrook is probably too sanguine; no education has yet been discovered which will render weak human nature proof against the possession of power. It is, moreover, impossible to "leave out of consideration the question of the enlisted men." But the discussion of this and kindred topics...
...University negative team consists of the following men: William Arnold Hosmer '18 (Occ.), of Bergen, N. Y.; Harris Berlack '20, of Jacksonville, Fla.; and William Sumner Holbrook, Jr., '21, of Davenport, Ia. The alternates who remain at home are Benjamin Franklin Jones '22, of Atlanta, Ga., and Eliot Dole Hutchinson '22, of Lowell, Mass. Yale will be represented by William Dwight Whitney, of New Haven, Conn.; Walter Millis, of Chicago, Ill.; Lawrence Sill Hitchcock, of North Pownall, Vt.; and Cadmus Zacheus Gordon, of Brookville, Pa., alternate...
...three University speakers have been in previous intercollegiate contests: Berlack with last year's University team and Holbrook with the University and 1921 representatives. Hosmer was alternate on the University team in 1917. Hitchcock of Yale spoke on the championship team of last year...
...affirmative team which debates at Princeton is composed of S. Washburn '20, R. P. Berle '19, J. J. Tutun '20 and M. J. Donner '21, as alternate. W. A. Hosmer ocC., H. Berlack '20 and W. S. Holbrook, Jr., '21 form the negative team which meets Yale in Sanders Theatre. E. J. Hutchinson '22 and B. F. Jones, Jr., '22 are alternates on this team...
...close of the debating trials last evening the University team was selected, consisting of H. Berlack '20, R. P. Berle '19, M. J. Donner '21, W. S. Holbrook, Jr., '21, W. A. Hosmer OcC., E. D. Hutchinson '22, B. F. Jones '22, J. J. Tutun '20, and S. Washburn '20. The team consists of six regular speakers and three alternates but the line-ups of the two teams which are to meet Yale and Princeton will not be announced until a few days before the final debate...