DEBATING COUNCIL REFUTES NEW DEAL AGAINST B.C. TEAM

Asserting that the Roosevelt administration has not lived up to its promises the Debating Council team defeated the Fulton Debating Society of Boston College last night at 8 o'clock in Ford Hall. The decision, 2-1 in favor of Harvard, marked the first victory over Boston College since the beginning of the series in 1928.

The team composed of Irving R. Murray '36, Thomas H. Quinn '36, and A. Gilman Sullivan '36 upheld the negative side of the subject: "Resolved, That the Roosevelt Administration deserves the confidence of the American People."

Riley Opens

Lawrence J. Riley opened the debate for Boston by saying that the country faced a crisis when Roosevelt came to power in 1933, and went on to describe the beneficial effects of the President's measures. Quinn, president of the Debating Council, gave the first speech for the negative, minimizing the crisis of 1933 and accusing the administration of not living up to its promises.

"When a man runs for president", Quinn said, "the only way you have of knowing what he is like is to look at the records and see what he has said, and what are his stands on issues of the day."

Sullivan Counters

In answering the statement that the New Deal measures have helped business, Sullivan referred to the drop in the stock market when the NRA and AAA were passed and the subsequent rise when they were declared void by the court. He went on to call the administration the most remarkable political matchine of all time and summed up their political and economic philosophy as "Hell bent for election."