The Pasteur medal was awarded to Paul Lombard Sayre '16, of Chicago, Ill., in the finals of the seventeenth annual debate, held in Emerson D last evening. Sayre supported the affirmative side of the subject: "Resolved, That the French claims to Alsace are paramount." The other speakers were M. L. Levine '18 C. A. Trafford '16, L. Brentano '18, B. E. Carter '16, P. P. Cohen '16, A. Cooper '17, and L. C. Hennin '15. Mr. E. L. Raiche, of the French department, presided, and the judges were Dr. R. L. Hawkins, of the French department; Assistant Professor W. G. Howard '91, of the German department; and Professor C. N. Greenough '98, of the English department.

Sayre founded his arguments on the long occupancy of Alsace by the French, on the geographical position of the two countries, the racial relation between the Alsatians and the French and the strong pro-French, anti-German sentiment of the population.