Word: lorenzen
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...Cambridge University debating team will meet the University squad here some time this fall, it wins announced last night by F. W. Lorenzen '28. The English speakers have not yet decided definitely on the time for their appearance at the University although it is expected to approximate the date of last year's Harvard-Oxford debate...
...subject as announced by Lorenzen last night is, "Resolved, that this house opposes the growing tendency of government to invade the rights of individuals." The question has been approved by both sides and the Crimson debaters will start immediately in preparing their arguments. Candidates for this debate have been requested to prepare three minute talks on either side of the question for the first meeting which will be held at 7 o'clock tomorrow night in Emerson...
...curse of the present age", was in the informal English manner, and was characterized by the wit and cleverness of the speeches on both sides. The team which clinched the Big Three debating title for Harvard was composed of D. W. Chapman '27, Barrett Williams '28, and F. W. Lorenzen...
...Sharp 1L left on the Fall River line for New York last night. From New York this morning they will go directly to Princeton where they will spend the day. The men who are making the trip. D. W. Chapman '27, Barrett Williams '28, and F. W. Lorenzen '28, are the same three who were picked a month ago as the affirmative team...
Barrett Williams '28, who will be the first speaker for the University, will hold as his chief contention that education ossifies the mind. F. W. Lorenzen '28 intends to enlarge on the evil of specialization which has grown out of the modern educational system. The last speaker for the affirmative, D. W. Chapman '27, will broach the issue in a somewhat more humorous vein. His arguments are based on the assumption that people are becoming too educated to be either comfortable or agreeable. He is also going to decry the decay of modern literature, putting the responsibility for this decline...