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...University Debating Club will hold a regular meeting at 7.30 o'clock this evening in the Assembly Room of the Union. The question for debate is as follows: "Resolved, That state boards of arbitration with full powers of investigation should be established throughout the United States for the purpose of settling labor disputes." W. T. Foster 1G., and G. W. Hinckley 1L., will support the affirmative, and J. Daniels '04 and F. B. Wagner 2L., the negative. Hon. Arthur P. Stone '93 will be the critic...
...article entitled "Sport or Business?" W. James, Jr., '03, treats the athletic question from the point of view of one who believes that Harvard athletics are losing the true spirit of amateur sport through making "frantic attempts to beat Yale." This question is of such general interest, and is so ably dealt with in this article, that any condensed summary of its contents must be unsatisfactory. It will be taken up at length in a future issue of the CRIMSON...
...Harvard's First Scholars, 1850-1859," Mr. W. R. Thayer '81, recapitulates briefly the occupations and deeds of the first ten students, in the classes for those years. Such an article bearing on the never settled question of academic distinctions in college as an earnest of future services, is always of interest. An article by Professor Kuno Francke on "Emperor William's Gift to Harvard," is a reprint of his speech delivered at the opening exercises of the Germanic Museum, November 10. "From a Graduate's Window: Contrasts Pleasant or Otherwise," presents strikingly the in-adequacy of the salaries...
...formation of the new University debating club, the name of the administrative body will be changed to the University debating committee, or some similar name, and the membership will doubtless be somewhat further restricted than at present. Permanent regulations for conducting the interclass debates will be determined upon. The question will also be brought up, whether in future all three members of the second team shall not rank equally as alternates. This is the present method at Princeton and Yale. Among other things, plans for the publication of a booklet giving the history of Harvard debating and describing its present...
December 18--Senior-Junior Interclass Debate. Question: "Resolved, That the following form of closure should be adopted by the Senate; (a) a motion shall be in order at any time, setting a time for voting on a bill, which motion shall be decided by two-thirds vote without debate; (b) the time for vote shall be extended if necessary, to allow every opponent of the bill so desiring to have one hour in which to state his objections to the bill." The teams will be: Seniors--F. W. Catlett, E. C. Johnson, D. A. McCabe, and J. Lebowich; Juniors...