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1925 DEBATING TEAM WINS IN THREE-CORNERED MEETING

Discuss Negative Side of Prohibition in Sanders with Yale--Win also at Princeton, Defending Affirmative.

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Arguing on the question: "Resolved, that the Volstead Act should be modified in accordance with the greatest liberality consistent with the Eighteenth Amendment", the Freshman debating team won the triangular debate yesterday by defeating Yale 1925 at Sanders Theatre and Princeton 1925 at Princeton. The judges' decision of the Cambridge debate, given by Mr. R. M. Washburn '90, Professor C. H. Gray of Tufts College, and Mr. E. J. Frost, was 2 to 1 in favor of the negative.

Professor Bliss Perry acted as chairman, and presided over the debate. Co-incident with this contest, the Freshman affirmative team, composed of W. J. Wilde, M. H. Thiessen, and P. W. Williams, won a unanimous decision over Princeton 1925 at Princeton. The team which upheld the negative for the Freshmen against Yale was composed of Morton Arnold, G. L. Black, and G. K. Hourwich.

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