Bates Team Beats Crimson Debaters

Frank Chapman and William String-fellow of Bates College presented a convincing enough case for "equalization of educational opportunity in the states through federal grants" to defeat the Debate Council last night. Roy Clause '50 and Richard Rohr '49 argued the negative side for Harvard.

The affirmative team attempted to prove that educational facilities in many states, especially in the south, are deficient. To remedy this situation they asked for federal aid to states where schools are inadequate.

Clause and Rohr countered that education in many states is not as bad as statistics tend to show. The states, they claimed, aren't making enough of an effort to settle their own schooling problems. Federal aid might well destroy the initiative of local education units, the Crimson debaters added.

Judge Allan S. Naues 3G decided in favor of the Bates due because they offered a concrete argument while Harvard answered only with assertions not backed up by fact.