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...accordance with a resolution passed by the University Debating Council on Thursday, November 7, to the effect that upper-class debating should be left to individual enterprise, an entirely new system of debating clubs has grown up within the University. In the place of the Agora and Forum of last year, there are now five independent societies, with a total membership of about 85. Two of them still retain the names of Agora and Forum, but they have been change constitutionally in the direction of informality. Debating has now become an essentially informal affair, and three of the clubs...
...Forum--Sonnets, by R. R. Logan...
Work of the Agora and Forum...
...debating interest within the University, outside of that shown in the debates with Yale and Princeton, has been centred on the interclass debates. It was decided this year, however, to discontinue the interclass debates and to encourage the formation of rival debating clubs. Accordingly the Agora and the Forum were organized as upper class debating clubs, drawing their membership from all students in the University except Freshmen, who still had the Freshman Debating Club. During the year, each of the clubs has had about 40 active members, who were divided into teams of four men each. These teams met each...
...three inter club debates were won by the Agora, but the Pasteur Medal was awarded to I. Dimond '09, of the Forum, in the final debate...