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HARVARD, OXFORD TO MEET TONIGHT IN FOURTH DEBATE

British Company Makes Last-Minute Refusal to Carry Speeches--Good Weather Conditions Forecast

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Broadcasting from stations in England and America, members of the Harvard Debating Council and The Oxford Union will stage the first transoceanic meet in the history of debating. It comes as something of a surprise that the speeches will not be heard in England owing to the policy of the British Broadcasting Company, the sole authorized radio agency in the country, of refusing to broadcast controversial subjects.

The debate will be preceded by a talk from New York by James W. Gerard, war-time ambassador to Germany. The National Broadcasting Company, which is bearing the entire costs of this debate, estimated at $35,000, will cooperate with the English company in transmitting the speeches.

"Cancellation of Debts"

The subject of the debate: "Resolved, That, in the interests of world prosperity, the war debts should be cancelled," selected by G. W. Wickersham, former United States Attorney General, and now chairman of President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission, will be opened by A. J. Irvine of Oriel College, Oxford, speaking for the affirmative. The negative side of the question, will be upheld by the next speaker, P. C. Reardon '32. To obviate the additional expense of shifting back and forth between speeches, and to accord with the split-argument nature of the debate, the next talker will be a Harvard man, D. M. Sullivan '33, who will support the affirmative. The last prepared speech will come from England, when E. D. O'Brien of Exeter College, gives a negative argument. These talks will last about nine minutes each.

Two rebuttal speeches will end the debate, each one covering five minutes. P. H. Cohen '32, will sum up the negative arguments of the Harvard and Ox- gium.

Arthur Willing Patterson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Eugene Edwin Record, of Brookline.

William Barry Wood, Jr., of Milton.

For Treasurer

Joseph Rawson Collins, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Alexander Cochrane Forbes, of Wellesley.

Peter Morton Whitman, of Katonah, New York.

For Orator

Frederick Charles Fiechter, Jr., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Augustin Hamilton Parker, Jr., of Charles River.

Paul Cashman Reardon, of Quincy.

Frederick Fessenden Wilder, of Brookline.

For Chorister

David Dodge Boyden, of Boylston.

Robert Ulrich Jameson, of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Geoffrey Whitney Lewis, of Brookline.

For Ivy Orator

Joseph Wright Alsop, Jr., of Avon, Connecticut.

Loftus Eugene Becker, of Tonawanda, New York.

Budd Emile Pollak, of New York, New York.

For Poet

George Caspar Homans, of Boston.

Eiting Elmore Morison, of Peterberough, New Hampshire.

For Odist

James Rufus Agee, of Rockland, Maine. Donald Bruce Edmonston, of Winthrop. Stanislaus Pascal Franchet, of Boston.

For Senior Class Album Committee

James Sherman Barker, of Dorchester. Rene Cheronnet Champellion, of Newport, New Hampshire.

Richard Norman Clark, Jr., of Atlanta, Georgia.

Crispin Cooke, of Buffalo, New York.

Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson, of Tuckahoe, New York.

Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild, of Miami, Florida.

John Sleeper Hartwell, of Bronxville, New York.

John Howland, of Quincy.

Eliot Fette Noyes, of Cambridge.

Joseph Webster Sandford, Jr., of Plain-field, New Jersey

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