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...main features of the farm bloc program for the next session of Congress will be the abolition of the " Pittsburg plus" system of basing freight rates. One or more bills will be offered with the concerted backing of the agricultural group in both House and Senate, making this system illegal...
...Fenn of the Theological School, Reverend Endicott Peabody of Groton School, Reverend F. G. Peabody of the University Faculty, Emeritus, Reverend R. C. Smith of Ipswich, Mass., Reverend Samuel Eliot of Boston, Reverend T. G. Soares of Chicago, Reverend C. E. Park of Boston, Bishop F. J. McConnell of Pittsburg, Reverend H. S. Coffin of New York, Bishop C. H. Brent of Buffalo, Reverend H. E. Fosdick of New York Reverend Raymond Calkins of Cambridge, Reverend H. H. Tweedy of the Yale School of Religions, Reverend Karl Reiland of New York, Reverend O. E. Maurer of New Haven, Bishop...
...debate Saturday evening at Pittsburg, Penn., with the University of Pittsburg, the University debating team, arguing against the immediate cancellation of the Allied war debts, lost by a unanimous decision of the judges. The men representing the University were C. A. Zinn '25, H. P. Sharp '25, R. S. Fanning '23, and S. L. Tait '23, alternate. Although the University team lost the decision of the judges, their speaking was frequently interrupted by applause from a large and enthusiastic audience...
...question for debate was "Resolved: That the United States should enter into an immediate agreement with the former Allied Nations for the cancellation of interallied indebtedness." The affirmative case presented by Pittsburg consisted chiefly in the arguments that in the cancellation of the huge debts resting upon foreign governments lay the possibility of correcting the evils of Europe, that a refusal to cancel such debts would inflict political and economic harm upon this country, and finally, the United States is under moral obligations to cancel such debts as were incurred in the prosecution of the war against Germany...
...Zinn '25, H. P. Sharp '25, R. S. Fanning '23, and S. L. Tait '23 will compose the University team the last-named as alternate. After a period of intensive training the team left for Pittsburg yesterday afternoon. An effective case has been worked up under the direction of the coach, C. H. Whelden 1G., and tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics: The same question constituted the subject of the University debates last year with the University of Syracuse and Ohio Wesleyan...