Word: question
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...thirteenth annual Harvard-Yale debate in Sanders Theatre last night resulted in a well-earned victory for the University team. The question for debate was as follows...
Harvard selected the question and Yale chose to defend the negative. The University team was composed of F. B. Wagner 1L., I. Grossman 2L. and R. LuV. Lyman '03, who gave their opening speeches in the order named. In rebuttal the order was Lyman, Wagner and Grossman. For Yale R. H. Ewell '03 spoke first, A. Fox '03, second and C. D. Lockwood 3L., third. In the rebuttal the order was Fox, Lockwood and Ewell. The main speeches were twelve minutes in length and the rebuttal five. The judges were President Pritchett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Provost...
...speakers and presented an effective case. The University team won largely because their case was based on the consideration of the interests of the whole civilized world, while their opponents considered only the interests of the United States. Harvard's contention was that under the conditions presupposed in the question the European power had an unquestionable right to seize territory of the debtor state to the amount of the award. The denial of that right by the United States would be contrary to the interests of South America, the United States and the rest of the civilized world...
Wagner began the debate and said in part: Under the presupposed facts of the question, a South American state has repudiated a just obligation which it owed to a European government. The creditor state has acted fairly and consented to arbitrate its claim. The debtor state has acted of its own free will in consenting to the Hague tribunal as a referee, and is in honor bound to accept the decision. We must presume that this decision was just, and that it set a reasonable time within which the South American country could have collected the sum and paid...
Harvard selected the question and Yale chose to support the negative. The Harvard team, composed of F. B. Wagner 1L., I. Grossman 2L., and R. Lu V. Lyman '03, will give their opening speeches in the order named. In rebuttal the order will be Wagner, Lyman and Grossman. E. M. Rabenold '04 is alternate for Harvard. For Yale the opening speeches will be given by R. H. Ewell '03, Alan Fox '03, and C. D. Lockwood 3L., in the order named, and in the rebuttal the order will be the same. The Yale alternates are W. M. Adriance...