Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having to court a decision, the Harvard-Carleton speakers in Paine Hall could afford to step down from the rostrum of oratory and let the argument proceed in a series of quick rebuttals. The question was "Resolved, That the jury system should be abolished," and Johnson, of Carleton, introducing the affirmative case, claimed that the jury is a static part of a dynamic society. A. L. Raffa ocC reported that it is based upon the common man and is essential to democracy: at which Rowe replied that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions...
Harvard's third debate in as many days is scheduled for tonight at 8.15 o'clock, when Brown is faced in Holden Chapel. The University debaters, upholding the affirmative of the same question as at Wesleyan, will consist of J. F. Harding '30, G. W. Harrington '30, and P. J. W. Bove '29. The speeches will be 15 minutes long, with the first affirmative man devoting five minutes of his time to a final rebuttal. The audience will render the decision...
Debating on the question, "Resolved, That this house favors the Baumes Law," the Harvard Freshman debating team lost its first debate of the year to Exeter on Saturday night, by a 3 to 0 decision...
...question to be under consideration tonight is, "Resolved. That this house favors the Baumes Law". Harvard will uphold the negative side of the question and will be represented by L. E. Becker '32, R. B. Eckels '32, P. C. Reardon '32, and R. H. Simonds '32. There are to be three speeches, limited to ten minutes each with a ten minute rebuttal. A decision will be rendered by three members of the Exeter faculty acting in the capacity of judges...
...subject of accurate and equitable determination. In the last analysis it must rest with the legislature which ought to be responsive to the general will of the majority. The collective judgment of the majority as to the social menace of the conduct interdicted should control. But the question of whether punishment should be severe or not is as old as society. Beccaria writing in 1764 was strongly convinced that crimes are more effectively prevented by the certainty than by the severity of punishment...