Word: war
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Outdoing their English rivals in repartee and in logic, the University debaters convinced a majority of their audience in Symphony Hall last night that uncompromising pacifism is the only effective attitude toward war, and won, 247 to 123. The University has now won three out of five debates in the international series...
...University debaters will meet the team representing the National Union of English Students tonight at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall in the fifth international debate between Harvard and English teams. The University will uphold the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the only effective attitude toward war is an uncompromising pacifism...
Admiral Magruder's quarrel with the Secretary of the Navy brings to the public mind the similar difficulties of General Mitchell with the War Department. Both were crusaders for reform; both, by appealing their cases to the public, aroused the ire of their superiors; but there the resemblance ends. Mitchell advocated larger expenditures, and accused the Government of stinting the allowance for an adequate air delense: Magruder is on the side of economy, and accuses the authorities of inefficient use of the funds appropriated...
...question to be debated at both meetings is: "Resolved, That the only effective attitude toward war is an uncompromising pacifism." The Hon. R. M. Washburn, president of the Roosevelt Club, will preside at Symphony Hall...
...Union has been organized six years, and was founded by ex-service men following the war in order that England and Wales might be represented in the newly formed International Confederation of Students. To further the interchange of ideas, the union has sent debating teams to the Dominions and has promoted the trips of English teams to America during the last few years. No other organization has the right to send out a team chosen from the English universities...