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HARVARD MAN IS ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT OF DEBATE LEAGUE

Single Vote by Audience Is Rule Set for Next Year

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John King Fairbank '29, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was elected vice president of the Eastern, Intercollegiate Debate League, at a meeting of the organization held yesterday at Princeton. Mark Harris and Richard Overtone, both of Williams College, were elected president and secretary respectively.

At the suggestion of V. K. Kwong '30, the committee assembled decided that in the future the vote of the audience was to be the only judge of the merits of the debate as presented. It was decided to have the audience vote on the question of the debate both before and after the debaters have spoken, thereby having the victory determined entirely by the amount of persuasion that a team can bring to bear upon its hearers.

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