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...University of Puerto Rico in the Eastern States this past spring. This team did not win in all its debates. It was defeated by Boston University on April 10, by Bates about a week later and then by Princeton. Of the dozen or so debates in which the Porto Ricans took part, only two were in Spanish. This in itself is certainly an exceedingly fine comment on how much interest is taken in foreign languages in our American colleges. To think that of all the universities invited to debate with Porto Ricans in their own language, only...
Yale staged an impromptu debate in Spanish later on with the excuse that they had not known that Porto Rico University was desirous of debating bilingually. As it was, the honor of taking part in the first intercollegiate debate to be held in a foreign tongue fell to New York University. The latter team was defeated but it proved concisely that N. Y. U. had students who were not afraid to face a foreign audience and debate and refute in a foreign tongue. Other colleges were fearful of making themselves appear ridiculous so they declined Porto Rico's invitation...
...Porto Rican, proud of my country...
Paul Louis Charles Claudel, French Ambassador to the U. S. LL. D. Antonio Barcelo, senator from Porto Rico...
When laws are passed in the U. S. prohibiting Sunday golf, great is the outcry. Laws have been passed in Porto Rico prohibiting cockfighting on Sundays and on every other day. But there is no outcry, except among the politicos. The politicos lately passed a bill repealing their harshest prohibition. Last fortnight Governor Horace Mann Towner vetoed the act and repeated that cockfighting is "a barbarous and cruel sport." But people said the law would not matter one way or the other. The jibaro pays no attention, saving his breath for the secret pit, the dashing fury of his little...