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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind the real value of the idea lies in putting something worth thinking about before the students of this country. There is no topic with which future active citizens and leaders of the United States can occupy themselves in thought better than the prohibition movement. It is a subject that deserves consideration and if collegians can be made to think seriously on such a worthy topic immeasurable good will have been done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sayre Macneil Lauds Crimson's Prohibition Plan Because It Sets College Men Thinking on Worthwhile Subject | 3/11/1930 | See Source »

Tomorrow at four-thirty in Pierce Hall Mr. Stedman S. Hanks will lecture on "The Flying Boat", a topic of interest to all those who are air minded and yet possessed of a sixth sense--the call of the sen. At five o'clock on the same day the first lecture in a series, "The Nature of the Visual Process", will be given by Professor Hecht of Columbia University who will talk on "Visual Acuity" in Building C, of the Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...Butler 3L is directing the preparations for this debate. Under his guidance the following six men are working upon the topic. W. P. Chapman '31, D. I. Cooke '31, W. E. Esber '31, H. C. Friend '31, J. M. Swigert '30, J. R. Wolfe '32. These men will consult with Butler in the living room of the Harvard Union at 3.15 o'clock this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS WILL OPPOSE COLUMBIA IN-NEW YORK | 2/28/1930 | See Source »

...Monroe Doctrine" will be the topic of the final session Saturday evening. The Rapporteur will introduce an amendment proposing to leave out the words "like the Monroe Doctrine" in Article 21 of the Covenant, which recog...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODEL ASSEMBLY IS TO BE HELD AT YALE | 2/14/1930 | See Source »

Kwong's arguments included the topic that Americans do not understand the Chinese as a civilized race of people, the attitude caused by the press being wrong. When questioned after the debate he made the following statement: "The Chinese are not just laundrymen and restaurant owners; there is a higher class of people, educated people. The abolition of Extra-territoriality will come in China, whether the western nations want it or not, and after it does come China will not be in a more disorganized state, for the foreign interference is a cause of frequent uprisings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHINESE ORATORS WIN OVER CRIMSON DEBATERS | 2/13/1930 | See Source »

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