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CRIMSON DEBATERS DEFEAT PRINCETON

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Emerging from its recent losing streak, the Harvard Debate Council last night defeated a team from Princeton University. Before some 200 people in Rhode island State University's Quinn Auditorium at Kingston, Rhode Island, Richard N. Gardner '48 and Richard T. Gill '48 defeated the Nassau team.

The topic was "Resolved, That every able-bodied male citizen in the United States should be required to have one year of full-time military training before reaching the age of 21. The Crimson debaters defended the negative position.

This victory partially stoned for the defeat which three other members of the Debate Council suffered Saturday evening at the hands of a visiting team from the United States Military Academy. Ray A. Goldberg '48, Albert J. Marks '47, and Arthur D. Sporn '47 were narrowly defeated on the topic of compulsory arbitration of labor disputes.

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