English Speakers Take Part in Many Diverse Activities

The three English speakers who will face the University debaters in Symphony Hall on October 28 are not limited in their interests or activities to speaking, as they have taken part in athletics, dramatics, journalism, and practical politics. One is a swimmer and a Liberal, another has played Rugby football and is a Conservative and the third is an active Socialist.

Frank Ongley Daryall, of the University of Reading, has been prominent in Rugby football, swimming, and hockey, as well as being the first president of the Students Representative Council, and dramatic critic for his university magazine. Andrew Haddon, of the University of Edinburgh, is a member of the University Boat Club, has served as President of the Edinburgh University Unionist Association, and takes an active interest in national as well as university politics. John Ramage, the third member of the triple-university team, has been influential in the undergraduate life of the London School of Economics and Political Science, serving for two years on the executive council of the Students' Union of his college, and engaging in a debate against the Australian team which toured Europe and America, a debate which attracted widespread attention by discussing the color problem of a "White Australia." Ramage has written for the "Socialist Review", the leading English socialist monthly, to which J. Ramsay MacDonald is a regular contributor.

Darvall, who is 21 years of age, prepared for the University of Reading at Dover College, where he took part in debating for four years, was an editor of the school magazine. "The Dovorian," and played Rugby football and hockey in addition to swimming on his college team. In 1923 Darvall entered the University College of Reading, and was Secretary of his hall debating club in his first year. Darvall, who is a Liberal, founded a political club, and when in 1925, he became Secretary of the Debating Society, he was nominated for the Imperial Debating Team. At the same time Darvall was also editor of the college magazine.

In 1926 the University College of Reading obtained its charter, and Darvall was elected President of the Students' Representative Council of the University of Reading in the same year, he being the first to hold that office in his university. During 1926 Darvall was also President of St. David's Hall, President of the Students' Union, and of the Debating Society. Darvall is Vice-President of the National Union of Students, and has represented English students in international conferences. In addition to these executive positions the English debater was dramatic critic for his university magazine and took a prominent part in the University play. Darvall is one of the two students to obtain First Class honors at the London External B. A. examinations in 1926 in Mediaeval and Modern History.

Darvall is active in the Liberal Party; he is on its local Executive Committee, and was in 1925 a delegate of his Constituency to the National Liberal Convention.

The second visiting debater is Andrew Haddon of the University of Edinburgh. Haddon is 23 years old and was born at Howick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He is a grand-nephew of J. B. Selkirk, one of the best known of Scotland's minor poets, while his father is Lieutenant Colonel Haddon, a lawyer by profession, and a soldier by virtue of a lifelong connection with the Volunteer and Territorial Armies.

Haddon entered the Edinburgh Academy in 1916 at the age of 12 to prepare for Edinburgh University. Sir Walter Scott was one of the founders of the Academy, and Robert Louis Stevenson studied there, as well as Sir James Clerk-Maxwell, Andrew Lang, Lord Haldane, and Lord Finlay, President of the Permanent Court of International Justice. Haddon played Rugby football while at the Academy, won several class and special prizes, and in his last year was head of his house. In 1922 he entered the University of Edinburgh as a candidate for the Master of Arts degree, which he received in 1925. For four years Haddon was a member of the Students' Representative Council, and is now one of its presidents, as well as Convener of the International Academic Committee of the organization. Haddon is interested in the political movements of Europe, and was one of the Scottish representatives in 1926 at the C. I. E. Council meeting in Prague, as well as representing his university in the same year at the I. S. S. Conference in Jugoslavia.

Haddon is a Conservative, and in the campaign for the election of Sir John Gilmour to the office of Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, he was abducted by the Liberals and held captive. Haddon has served as secretary, vice-president, and president of the Edinburgh University Unionist Association, and is a member of the International Committee of the Students' Representative Councils of Scotland. Haddon is also head of the travel department of that organization in Edinburgh.

Since being capped Master of Arts in 1925 Haddon has studied law, and is now in the last year of study for the degree of Bachelor of Laws in preparation for admission to the Scottish Bar. He is a member of the University Boat Club and has rowed for his faculty.

The third speaker, John Ramage, is a student of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is active in national as well as university politics, having been secretary of the local organization of the British Labor Party. Ramage was a member of the debating team which met the Australian team touring Europe and America on the "White Australia" issue. The debate was presided over by the Right Honorable L. S. Amery, M.P., Secretary of State for the Dominions, and attracted widespread attention as a statement of the color problem in Australia.