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...American college debating has been for some years, by the confession of its own devotees, quite dour and dismal. Should it become now a laughing-stock? Harvard, Yale and Princeton have undertaken to move it in this direction. The crucial topic set for their latest triangular wrangling--"Resolved, that education is the curse of the present age" and they chose with chuckles aforethought. They expressly intended to give light discussion wide play in the ensuing debate, and so to invite the attendance of a larger audience, tempted by an opportunity not only to think but to smile...
This evening at 8.15 o'clock in Payne Hall the University debaters will meet the Yale team. This debate, which is one of the Harvard-Yale-Prinecton triangular series, marks the climax of the current season. The University will defend the negative of the question: "Resolved, That education is the curse of the present age", against the forensic art of the Eli affirmative team...
...University affirmative debaters who were to have travelled to Princeton tonight for the second of the triangular series have been forced to postpone their trip on account of the Princeton vacation and the late start the Princeton wranglers got in preparing for the debate...
...University negative team which will enter the lists tonight is composed of E. C. Sibley '28, D. S. Dickson '27, and I. J. Fain '27, with George Slaff '26, and A. F. Reel '28 as alternates. Of these Dickson is the only one who spoke in the triangular debates last year. The Yale team is composed of H. G. Rowell, H. H. Thomas, Basil Davenport, and H. G. Hayes, alternate...
...Chapman '27, Barrett Williams '28, and D. L. Dickson '27 spoke in the triangular debate with Princeton and Yale last year and F. W. Lorenzen '28 was an alternate...