Word: swigert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge. The League chooses the questions. These debates have not proved popular in Cambridge, and have attracted smaller crowds than the "free-lance" debates. Hence the Council cannot possibly afford to continue them unless it received a special grant from the College to defray the extra expense.... J. Mack Swigert, '30. Ex-President, Harvard Debating Council...
According to Swigert the dropping of the Yale-Princeton meeting is not connected with the withdrawal last Friday of the Council from the Intercollegiate Debating League, and it was further stated that Harvard would meet both colleges on the rostrum...
...first time since 1912 Harvard will not enter this year the annual triangular debate with Yale and Princeton. It was announced last night by J.M. Swigert '30, retiring president of the Debating Council. Failure to arrange a date was the reason given for the move. It was also stated that a graduate advisory committee will be appointed to confer with the Debating Council during the coming year...
...debate marked by a careful arrangement of the speeches and a pleasing informality of presentation. Those who heard the contest were few in number, but took a real interest in the argument, and at the end plied the speakers with so many questions that Chairman J. M. Swigert '30 had to call a halt on further queries...
Faced with the necessity of establishing sufficient reasons for the abolishing of capital punishment, Harvard concentrated on the plea that the severe penalty does not justify itself by preventing homicide. J. H. Swigert '30, introducing his case, made a strong historical appeal which branded the death penalty a survival of the primeval instinct of revenge and accordingly reprehensible. It is "inhuman and cruel," was his premise; and it "closes the door of justice in case of possible error...