Education: Wrangles

Debating livened the last weeks before college holidays. Wranglers from Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and from the University of Sydney (Australia), have been touring the country with enterprise unprecedented. At Iowa State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts (Ames, Iowa), the three Australians, graduates all, sounded more effective than their hosts, winning an affirmative vote on "Resolved: That the Press exerts a harmful influence upon the community." At Boston College, the Cambridge men lost, but won from George Washington University (Washington, D. C.), on the proposition that that Government had intruded too far...

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