Education: Debate

Had the Mayor of Chicago been in the McMillin Academic Theatre at Columbia University last week he might well have yelped and yarred in anti-British fury.

Presiding at a debate was Prof. David Saville Muzzey, author of a U. S. history deemed pro-British and pernicious by "Big Bill" Thompson, and declared by him unfit for Chicago schools. Further his mayoral anglophobia would have been irritated by the fact that three of the debaters were British students.

The debaters: from Oxford University, Alan T. Lennox-Boyd, C. S. Malcolm Brereton, Dingle M. Foot; from Columbia, Lawrence...

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