DEBATING CHAMPIONS

In the fifth annual debates of the Triangular League, held March 3, Dartmouth won the championship of the league by defeating the team from Brown at Hanover and by the negative team s winning over Williams at Williamstown. The feat of two years ago was duplicated and again was the championship annexed by unanimous decision.

The question debated was: Resolved, that throughout the United States proper full suffrage should be extended to women equal to that now accorded men."

The home team was made up of: Conrad Edwin Snow '12 of Rochester, N. H., William Ellsworth Tucker 10, of Chelsea, Mass., Warren Choate Shaw '10, of Lowell, Mass., with Cyrus Lockwood Harris '12, of Brooklyn, N.Y., as alternate. The men from Providence, speaking also in the order named, were: George Christian Stucker, of Providence, R.I., Arthur Franklin Newell, of West Roxbury, Mass., Clifton Henry Walcott of Leominster, Mass., with Winfield Wardwell Green, of Weymouth, Mass., as alternate. Governor Henry Brewer Quinby, of Laconia, acted as presiding officer, and after a brief introductory speech accorded him by Prof. Craven Laycock, Governor Quinby outlined the rules and objects of the debate. The judges were the Hon. William E. Huntington, chairman, president of Boston University, Judge Arthur P.Stone, of Belmont,Mass., and Prof. Robert W. Kelso, of the Department of Argumentation in Harvard University.

Dartmouth defended the negative at Williamstown, and was represented by: George Maurice Morris '11, of Chicago, Ill., Kenneth Francis Clark '11, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Clifford Stanley Lyon 10, of Holyoke, Mass.

Brown defeated Williams at Providence and thereby won second position in the league.