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Show DEBATING WINNERS WIN-NERS AT THE Bi Yi Gi For tho last throe weeks thoro lias been conducted a series of class contests con-tests iu debating, tho question being, Resolved that tho tendency of population popu-lation to conccntrato In cities Is detrimental de-trimental to tho best Intorest of tho people." Four tennis, each with threo Bponk-crs, Bponk-crs, wero organized as follows: from tho Second Yenrs, Abblo Scholes, Wlnnlfred Friday, and Glacus Merrill; Mer-rill; from tho Third Years, Maud McClcllon, Assol Prlco, Mabel Hawkins; Hawk-ins; from tho Fourth Years, Faun Weaver, Vernon Obray, nnd Carol Ivans; and from tho College, Russell Hess, Harvard Osmond, and Arvllla Tltonsor. Tho first two contests woro bo-tween bo-tween tho Second nnd Third Years and botwecn tho Fourth Years and College respectively. Tho winners wero tho Second Years nnd Fourth Years; nnd tho declslvo contest took placo to-day betwoen theso two clns-ses, clns-ses, with tho result that tho final honors wont to tho Second Tears. Tho youngest class In the school. Tho question, which wns choson by Dr. Bcal general director ot debating de-bating activities, proved to bo ot inoro than academic Interest. It Is. In fact ono of tho questions looming largo on tho political and social' horizon hori-zon of tho United States today, as witness tho refcrenco to It In President Presid-ent Harding's recent messago to Congress. |