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Prison walls, locked gates and armed guards need not be barriers to the mind. The living proof of this is a group of convicts at Norfolk State Prison Colony who annually out-smart and out-talk top college debaters from all over New England...
...recent years the Norfolk Debaters, as the group calls itself, has become one of the strongest debating teams in the country. A glance at its record against collegiate competition will show why. Since 1936, when they began debating colleges, the convicts have won 44 debates and lost only...
...eight debates against Harvard, Norfolk this record in mind it is not surprising that the Crimson debaters rank Norfolk along with Yale as their toughest competition. After three successive defeats to Norfolk in the last two years, Harvard finally managed to pull out a victory two weeks ago, but only against the convicts' second or third team...
...Nussbaum '52, president of the Debate Council, and a three time loser against Norfolk, was joined in last night's victory by Frank Olson '53. They debated the affirmative of the motion "Resolved: That the 22nd Amendment should be repealed...
...Norfolk was represented by Frank Keaney and George Johnson...