A Sex Problem . . .

Professor Gordon (Aff) began. He was there, he said, under false pretences. He had been persuaded to speak believing the debate to be on a sex problem. ... He told a joke (a lead which the affirmative speakers all followed), and went on to say that Philosophers cannot pull teeth or help people to have babies and that Universities have always in the past produced technicians. Cruden (Neg) defined philosophy as a whole, technology as a part, of knowledge. "The University is the guardian of truth and of our intellectual heritage."

Dr. Munx (Aff) agreeably wasted five minutes of his [unclear: time] and than went on to argue rather curiously that since technicians and philosophers were identically equal, if the Negative proved its case it also proved his. In that case he did not explain why he had come at all. Miss Thorn (Neg) quoted Professor Gordon's published works. (Which Prof. Gordon later remarked "was like hitting below the belt. Now Miss Thorn has written work for me . . .") Mr Braybrooke (Aff) rather disagreed with Dr Munz in speaking of the "great and yawning gulf between philosophers and technicians." He gave a short character sketch of Bishop Berkley and later concluded "that Socrates was really the schizophrenic alter ego of Plato."