Show THE DEBATING OUTLOOK With two debates already scheduled d dand and negotiations for others well under way the prospects for this years year's debates are very promising All except two of the members members members mem mem- bers of last years year's teams team's have have- returned and considerable interest is already in evidence among students who heretofore have not participated in this phase of student life life life- material then is not wanting At the close of last year when Mr Roberts Roberts Roberts Rob Rob- erts announced his intention to leave the University the students th those se interested in debates especially experienced a considerable considerable considerable consid consid- erable shock But now that they find him still at his post and with him a collaborator from the Elocution department they feel a I stimulating reaction which without doubt will manifest itself in the approaching con con- tests One feature which contributes greatly to to the increasing interest in debates is a changing attitude on the part of students They are growing more and more away from the notion so prevalent in the past that debating will do for barristers and those who expect to teach argumentative English and a fe few v fellows glib of tongue and anxious for the honors that arise from p participation in intercollegiate contests and are coming to the more accurate and common sense view that debating has an appreciable intrinsic value They begin to recognize in debating a training which enables enables en- en ables men to stand on on their own footing and not be carried about by every wind of doctrine which teaches them to distinguish distinguish distinguish between evidence and oratory and which prepares them to weigh evidence and t to suspend judgment until all possible evidence evidence evi evi- dence deuce is in To each American citizen all these points are important He may be called at time to sit any in judgment on his fell fellows fellows he ws-he ws he should know how to From From time to time it becomes his to duty to decide by his vote important matters of state state state-he he should be able to vote intelli intelli- gently Women too should b be bg interested in debating debating debating de de- bating especially in states where womans woman's suffrage obtains Those women are equally equal equal- ly responsible with men for the prerogative prerogative tive of citizen citizenship hip We vVe hope to see more debating enthusiasm enthusiasm enthus enthus- among the women of the University THOS STOKES |