Show c COMPULSORY DRILLIS DRilL DRILL- IS UNDER DISCUSSION mN Columbia Cornell CorneD Penn Perm State and Amhurst Cla Clash hin in Debate on Subject Negative Leads Lead Columbia Sp Spectator Coach Arthur Rileys Riley's varsity debaters debaters de de- baters ater upheld ld and attacked com compulsory compulsory ul sory sory enrollment in the R. R O. O OTc T. T C Ci Cifor for college students in three weekend weekend week week- end debates last Friday and Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day evenings evenings' The local speakers defended the affirmative against again t Cornell and Amherst and the negative negative negative nega nega- tive against Pennsylvania Captain John Somerville 26 Frederick Meyer 27 and Harold Hsrold Davis composed the team that det defended the affirm affirmative of of th the resolution r solution Resolved that Iha compulsory com com Enrollment in i Corps Training Corps in American colleges should be abolished The trio that defended the negative against the Pennsylvania speakers were Kenn Kenneth th Ab Abernathy 27 Kl Donald Donold Don Don- old ald Barnes and Oswald vis hi 28 Affirmative Argues Twice The affirmative speakers traveled travel travel- traveled travel travel- I ed to Ithaca Ithac to meet the Co Cornell ell debaters debaters debaters de de- I baters on Friday night Al Although hough they were speaking to a Cornell Cornell Cornel audience and against a college that did have lave compulsory R. R 0 T. T C. C on its curriculum the Morningside team received the approval of the audience by a vote of thirty-nine thirty to thirteen Immediately after the Cornell Cornel encounter Somerville Meyer anc and Davis entrained for New York to meet the the debaters from Amherst inthe in inthe inthe the Earl Karl Hall Auditorium on Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- Satur- Satur day evening evening- Again arguing against compulsory military training training- this trio convinced the campus audi audience that compulsory R. R 0 T T. T C. C i in only a few colleges was wrong wong A poll of the audience t taken ken by Professor Professor Carmen who who presided before the debate sh showed wed we'd nine fifty nine against compulsory R. R O. O T. T C. C and arid forty-five forty in favor of it At Atthe the close of the speeches the audience stood eighty against the R. R 0 O. T. T C. C ar and and sixty in favor of it While the affirmative was was debating debating debat- debat ing ng at Ithaca Friday the negative team eam of Abernathy Barnes and anti journeyed down town to the American Bankers' Bankers Institute Institute Institute-at at 15 West 37 street and defended compulsory compulsory com com- om- om military training against the speakers from the University of Pennsylvania Mr L Louis uis Ohl- Ohl r oge assistant cashier of the National National National Na Na- Park Bank who was chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man announced the vote of the audience as as thirty-nine thirty to to twenty twenty- one in favor of abolishing it j |