Show good of debating Soc letle schoolboys who declaimed the boy the burning deck wh ensall buttiri ud fled have been laughed off the platform and now like fourth p july spread eagle orators are only a memory of the older generation but the declaiming schoolboy tor all bis sheepish slurring of words and vocie erous false emphases got one great benefit practice in standing on bis feet before an audience to give his successors similar practice forensic debating under proper instruction Is 11 the thing for upper grammar classes high schools and academies debating means not only speaking but thinking and Is therefore more kalua than speaking pieces A recent leaflet of the new england association of teachers of english makes a strong plea for the encouragement on the part of teachers and parents of organ iced debate between schoolboys it has the excitement of contest Is re to the teaching of english and has a bearing on a moral question that has vexed our schools the dues alon of secret fraternities and clubs these societies usually have nothing important to do the presence in every school of one or more debating societies would satisfy in a healthy way the mysterious desire of young men and women to belong to something |