Show good of debating societies who declaimed th the boy st odon the burning deck wh ensall buttic ud fled have been laughed oft off t the ae platform and now like fourth ot of july ulf spread eagle orators are only a memory of the older generation dut but the declaiming schoolboy for all his sheepish slurring blurring of words and erous ceroua false emphases got one great benefit practice in standing on his feet before an audience to give his successors similar practice forensic debating under proper instruction Is clearly the thing for upper grammar classes high schools and academies debating means not only speaking but thinking and is therefore more kalua ble than speaking pieces A recent leaflet of the new england association of teachers of english makes a stion on plea pica tor for the encouragement on the pait of teachers and parents of organ iced debate between schoolboys it has the excitement of contest Is ro re to the teaching of and haa a bearing on a moral question that taht has vexed our schools the ques tion of secret fraternities and clubs these societies usually have nothing important to do the presence pie sence in every school of one or more debating socie societies tips would satisfy in a healthy may ay the mysterious desire of young men and women to belong to something |