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Crimson Team Takes Affirmative Side On Subject of New Deal as Attempt For Power

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED November 1, 1938

Evening the count with the Elis to whom they lost last Friday at New Haven, the Crimson debaters tonight scored a victory by the unanimous decision of the three judges ever Yale at the Boston Public Library.

The subject, which was the same as that argued at Yale, was: Resolved That the New Deal is more interested in political power than in the welfare of the people. Harvard lost on the negative at New Haven, but won last night when defending the affirmative.

For the Crimson, Paul W. Cherington '40 led off and made the rebuttal speech. Other speakers for the Crimson were Sanford Marshall '41 and Henry Oyen '41. The Yale men were Henry Shultz '39, Henry Kohn '39, and Hart Spiegel '40.