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Nineteen candidates took part in the preliminary trials of the France-Amerique debate which were held April 8. Each spoke, in French, for five minutes on some subject connected with French civilization. The trials were not public, but were held before Professor Louis J. A. Mercier, Professor Louis J. A. Mercier, Professor E. L. Raiche, and Professor R. L. Hawkins of the French Department, who were the judges. Of the men competing, the following six were chosen to speak in the public finals in May: H. Brown '22, W. A. Denker '20, G. R. Fearing '23, J. L. Hotson...
...Medal Debate will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock in Sever 11. Candidates must be prepared to speak, in French, for five minutes on some subject connected with French civilization. The trials will not be public, but will be held before three judges, Professor Louis J. A. Mercier, Professor E. L. Raiche, and Professor R. L. Hawkins of the French Department. Of those who compete, six will be chosen to speak in the final debate to be held...
...held in Harvard under the auspices of the French Department and the Cercle Francais. A gold medal, having on one side the head of Washington, and on the other, Washington at the siege of Boston, will be presented to the winning debater. The judges are Mr. Louis J. A. Mercier, Mr. E. L. Raiche, and Dr. R. L. Hawkins, of the French Department. The subject may be chosen from any aspect of French civilization, and the candidate should prepare a speech to last five minutes...
...candidates for the preliminary trials should enter their names in at once to Mr. Louis J. A. Mercier, of the French Department. The final debate will be held on Thursday...
...philosophical and ethical field we have Mr. Mercier's able review of Professor Babbitt's new humanism--"A Renaissance of the Law for Man"--as the governing principle of life in place of a sentimental romanticism or the equally sentimental naturalism. The easy road of laudatory self-indulgence is no longer to be justified by an appeal to nature as the final law. Reason is again to assert its kingship in the domain of life; man is to turn from "the anarchistic ideal of unchecked self-expression to the practice of the disciplines which humanize the individual and make...