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A practical handbook for the debater, covering the different questions that arise in the technique of debating.
"Greater sincerity" is the keynote. It the audience is to render the decision according to its attitude at the close of the debate, the speaker must not only present a logical case, but must do so with that conviction which only his belief in the cause he advocates can produce...
Mr. X Harvard '94 while in college was a debater and organizer of Republican Clubs. A few years after he had graduated he had a chance to run for mayor of a great city. The rival candidate was not a college graduate. Mr. X decided that politics were too dirty...
To illustrate the necessity of discrimination Dr. Crothers pointed out that while a poor debater clogs his discourse with myriads of points, hewildering the listener and failing to drive home a single part of his argument, the good speaker yields all minor questions, gives all his eloquence to the one...
At a meeting of the University and Freshman debating teams yesterday afternoon, a plan was outlined which will give the 1924 team the benefit of the experience of the older men. To effect this, the work of each Freshman debater, in preparation for the triangular debate with Princeton and Yale...