Word: yesterday
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...transatlantic cable failure and sunspot-caused interference of short wave radio broadcasting dissolved yesterday's proposed debate between members of the Harvard Debate Council and the Cambridge University Debate Union...
...debate of the resolution; "That this house thanks God for the Atlantic," was to have been transmitted live from Allston Burr Lecture Hall at 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Tentative plans have been made to hold the debate after the cable is repaired...
About 100 spectators had gathered in Burr B by 4:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon when radio operators expected to establish immediate contact with the Cambridge group. By 5 p.m. however, the Harvard technicians were still unable to reach their Cambridge counterparts over the BBC network because of continuous sunspot interference. Ten minutes later all hope of running the debate was abandoned...
Dean Bundy expressed his approval yesterday of the cooperative effort. "It appears to be an exceedingly promising idea," he noted, "and it may well point to an answer of the still unsolved problems of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduate education...
...varsity wrestling team defeated a determined Amherst team, 28 to 5, yesterday in an away meet. After the Lord Jeffs forfeited in both the 123-lb. and 130-lb. divisions, the Crimson registered two pins, two decisions, and a tie on its way to vctory...