Columbia Debating Team to Take Extended Spring Trip

Three men representing the Columbia debating team will take an 8,000-mile cross-continental trip during their Easter vacation. This will be the first long trip ever taken by a debating team it this country. The three men who will take the trip are: Douglas M. Black 1916, James W. Danahy 1917, manager and Edward M. Earle 1917.

The team will leave New York of April 8 for Liberty, Mo., where on the 10th it will debate against William Jewell College. From here it will travel to Los Angeles, where it will meet on April 14, the Law School of the University of Southern California. On April 18 a debate will be held with the University of Utah at Salt Lake City and with the University of Denver, in Denver, on April 20. This will be the team's last debate and it will then return to New York arriving there April 24.

Columbia will always defend the negative of the question: "Resolved. That the United States should immediately and materially increase its army and navy.