Debate Council Beats Princeton, Defeated by Yale in Big 3 Tourney

A three-man College debating team defeated Princeton by unanimous decision last night to win the first round of the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate here. But the Debate Council lost the second round to Yale at New Haven.

With the triangular debates, the Council concludes its 1953-54 season, one of the most successful in recent years. The debating team won 108 matches and lost 41 during the year.

William J. Foote '55 of Winthrop House, Verne W. Vance '54 of Lowell House, and Richard A. Levin '54 of Winthrop House debated the negative side of the topic: Resolved, That Communist China should be admitted to the United Nations. The unanimous decision was considered by Debate Council members to be extremely unusual; most Big Three debates are won by split decisions.

Yale set down the Crimson affirmative team which debated the same topic, also by a unanimous decision. On this team were Edward M. Ginsburg '55 of Winthrop House, John A. Miskimen '54, and Richard Stewart '51.

Judges for the Princeton debates were the Hon. Raymond S. Wilkins '12, of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Francis W. Hatch '19, president of the New York advertising firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborne, and Ralph Lowell '12, president of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Corporation and the Lowell Institute.