CHAMPIONSHIP UNDECIDED

A triple tie as a result of all the affirmative teams winning; was the outcome of the contests of the Triangular Debating League, held simultaneously in Hanover, Williamstown and Providence, March 4. The question debated was, Resolved: That the Federal postal savings bank scheme as advocated by Postmaster-General Meyer should be adopted in the United States. " Dartmouth defeated Williams at Hanover but lost to Brown at Providence, while Williams was victorious over Brown at Williamstown. Thus each team had one victory and one defeat to its credit, leaving the championship undetermined.

Some seven hundred people were present at the debate in Hanover to see the Dartmouth team, composed of: Ralph J. Richardson '09, Mark A. Smith '10, and Warren C. Shaw '10, with Conrad E. Snow '12 as alternate, triumph over the Williams team composed of: H. W. Fowle '10, E. S. Grenbaum '10, and M. L. Ernst '09, with H. H. Pike '09 as alternate. Prof. Frank H. Dixon of Dartmouth presided, while the judges were: Rev. R. Dewitt Mallory, Judge Edward F. Lyford, and Attorney Charles H. Beckwith, all of Springfield, Mass.

At Providence Clifford S. Lyon '10, Philip M. Chase '09, Ralph L. Theller 09. and alternate James R. Lowell '10, the members of the Dartmouth team, supporting the negative, lost to the affirmative Brown team composed of: T. G. Connolly '09, C. H. Walcott '10. C. E. Hheeler'09, with G. C. Stucker 'II alternate. The judges were: Judge Michael J. Murray, of the Municipal Court of Boston, Prof. Samuel Williston and Prof. A. M. Ballantyne, both of Harvard Law School.

The Dartmouth men won the debate at home because of the excellence of their rebuttal, afterwards termed the best ever heard in Hanover. In addition the affirmative appeared to be undoubtedly the best side of the question, as the results of the other two debates showed. At Providence the argument was close and well fought all the way, the judges rendering a decision unanimously in favor of the affirmative at the close.