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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pasteur Medal for Debating was awarded to Henry Epstein '16, of Brooklyn, N. Y., in the fifteenth annual contest held in Sever 11 last evening. Louis Charles Henin uC., of Springfield, was given honorable mention. Six other contestants also discussed the question, "French Experience in the Administration of Railroads," for ten minutes each...
...from all the boarding-schools that are represented by more than ten men in the class of 1916, only a very small percentage from certain of these schools are eating at Memorial Hall, while the great majority of them board at the Union. The seven schools in question may be divided into two groups: 92 Freshmen come from Andover, Exeter, Middlesex and Milton, and of these 72 per cent have eaten at Memorial for over a month, while 13 per cent have taken their meals at the Union: of the Groton, St. Mark's, and St. Paul's School...
...main debate of the evening, however, gathered about the question as to whether such debating as the Oxford Union fosters could not well be made the centre of the Union's activities. Some doubt was expressed on the point of the amount of interest which Harvard undergraduates could be expected to take in such subjects as are keenly debated at Oxford. The general consensus of opinion was, nevertheless, that the experiment might be tried and, if non-existent at present, the interest would grow. Other suggestions made were that such an organization should originate and be managed solely...
...elaborate program of introductory speeches has been arranged. Professor I. N. Hollis h. '99, chairman of the board of trustees of the Union, James J. Storrow '85, and Malcolm Donald '99, also of the board of trustees will open the meeting with addresses on various phases of the question: "The Uses of the Union in the Future." Several other members of the governing board and officers of the Union are expected to take part in the discussion. The introductory speeches will be followed by the customary informal argument from the floor...
...eight men retained from the preliminary trials will debate for the Pasteur Medal in the New Lecture Hall Friday evening at 7.45 o'clock. The subject of the debate is "French Experience in the Administration of Railroads" and any side of the question may be treated. The speeches will be ten minutes in length, the logic and clear presentation of the subject being judged as well as the speaker's manner of delivery and general knowledge...