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From the turn of the century to 1920 , the controversy which inspired the ` Great Debate ' that would occur in 1920 was on . Retrospectively he described his war service working on human helminthological problems as Lieutenant commander at the Naval Medical Research Unit number 2 on Guam as ` a sort of release ' from the ` long lean years ' . Another reason the ` Great Debate ' is important is captured nicely in the book Shu , F ., 1982 , The Physical Universe , An Introduction to Astronomy , ( University Science Books , Mill Valley , California ) p. 286 : " The Shapley-Curtis debate makes interesting reading even today . There were others besides Curtis who probably could have argued most of what Heber Curtis did at the ` Great Debate . As the ratings agencies noted , the absence of a ` realistic and coherent strategy to curtail the budget deficit and thereby reduce the public debt and debt service burden ' had put further pressure on the economy . Overall , some 70 per cent of the School 's entrants are at least 21 years old , and more than 40 per cent of BTEC and undergraduate entrants fall into this ` mature ' category . This version ( postscript , ditroff , text forms , maps in postscript ) and earlier versions may also be obtained by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.wisc.edu in the ` connectivity_table ' directory . The information provided includes a glossary relevant to the 1920 debate , the actual submitted transcripts of the 1920 debate , and a bibliography citing several good sources that review the ` Great Debate ' and the surrounding times . Although the ` Great Debate ' is important to different people for different reasons , it is a clear example of humanity once again striving to find its place within the cosmic order .