Debate

Had the Mayor of Chicago been in the McMillin Academic Theatre at Columbia University last week he might well have yelped and yarred in anti-British fury.

Presiding at a debate was Prof. David Saville Muzzey, author of a U. S. history deemed pro-British and pernicious by "Big Bill" Thompson, and declared by him unfit for Chicago schools. Further his mayoral anglophobia would have been irritated by the fact that three of the debaters were British students.

The debaters: from Oxford University, Alan T. Lennox-Boyd, C. S. Malcolm Brereton, Dingle M. Foot; from Columbia, Lawrence A. Tassi, William T. Matthews, Kenesaw Mountain Landis.*

The Subject: Resolved: That America Should Join the League of Nations.

The Oxford students supported the affirmative, won the debate by vote of the audience. Fluent, suave Mr. Lennox-Boyd was first speaker. Witty, he amused the audience by describing the difficulties of speaking with an English accent to citizens of the U. S.

Later in the week, at New Haven, the Oxford students debated with students from Yale. The subject: Resolved: That This House Believes that the Best Life is the Public Life.

No vote was taken to determine the winners. Fluent, suave Mr. Lennox-Boyd was first speaker. Witty, he amused the audience by describing the difficulties of speaking with an English accent to citizens of the U. S.

The Oxford students have been in the U. S. in accord with an annual custom of sending an English debating team to the U.S.

In Boston, Harvard debaters defeated Yale debaters. The audience voted 848 to 225 that "Al Smith Should be Elected President."

*Nephew of famed "Baseball Tsar" Landis, senior at Columbia. He entered the University when he was 15, wore short pants and black ribbed stockings through his Freshman year. His ambition to be a coxswain was frustrated by his mother who would not permit a nonswimming son on the Harlem River. His hair is usually tousled, his eyes sleepy, and great is his aptitude for poker. Last summer he won a Ford in a poker game. The Ford, however, would not run. His interest in baseball is only casual.