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The 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."

The Oxford system of judging, in which the audience alone decides upon the merits of the opposing teams, will be employed, as it has been in all previous debates between Harvard and English teams. The Honorable R. M. Washburn, president of the Roosevelt Club of Boston, will preside, with C. N. Greenough '98, former Harvard Dean, and S. E. Evans, the British Vice-Consul at Boston, as tellers. A. F. Reel '28, F. W. Lorenzen '28, and Barrett Williams '28, will speak for the University in the order named, opposed by Andrew Haddon, Edinburgh University, John Ramage, London School of Economics and Political Science, and F. O. Darvall, University of Reading.

A survey of the former debates shows that the Harvard-English series is tied, for Harvard defeated Oxford in 1922, the Oxonians came back and won in 1923, the University defeated Oxford again in 1925, and Cambridge won last year.

The question debated in 1922 was the proposed entrance of the United States into the League of Nations. The University won on the negative of this question, by an audience vote of 1614 to 1000. In 1923 the French occupation of the Ruhr Valley, involving the whole question of reparations payments by Germany, was debated, and Oxford won, 1748 to 519, on its opposition to the French action.

With one victory each, the opposing teams again met in Symphony Hall in 1925, and the University team defeated Oxford on the negative of the question: "Resolved. That the growth and activities of the Socialist Movement are detrimental to human progress." Last year the Cambridge team's wit and eloquence proved too much for the logic of the Harvard speakers, and the Cantabrigians won, 715 to 274, by their support of the growing tendency of government to invade individual rights.

Williams and Lorenzen have confronted speakers of the English Universities before, as Williams spoke against Oxford in 1925, and Lorenzen was a member of the team that met Cambridge last years.