Debating Audiences Support Roosevelt Here and at Yale

New Haven, October 31--By a vote of 131 to 94, the audience at the Harvard-Yale debate here tonight supported Roosevelt despite the opposition of the Harvard debating team.

A vote of confidence was also given the Roosevelt Administration by the audience here last night after the other Harvard and Yale debaters had met in the Winthrop House Common Room. Owing to the small attendance, the question, "Resolved: That the welfare of the country demands a vote of confidence in the Administration in the coming congressional elections," was decided solely on its merits rather than on the skill of the teams. The vote was two to one for the new deal.

The affirmative was upheld by Powers McLean '35, Oscar M. Lurie '35, and James J. Fuld '37 of Harvard, who maintained that destruction of the new deal would destroy the bright future of the Administration. The negative team from Yale, Edward H. Kenyon '37, Walter W. Rostow '36, and John Strauss '35, gave figures to show that the new deal was "a means not justifying the end." Fredrick doW, Bolman '33, President of the Debating Council, presided at the meeting.