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Three clubs have held regular debates during the year--the University and Freshman Debating Clubs and the Forum. The work in the University club was conducted largely by informal discussion; in the Forum by team debates; and in the Freshman club by the usual camp system. Toward the close of the year, the Forum invited prominent men to address its meetings--and this plan will probably be extended next year...
Under the auspices of the Forum Mr. Albert A. Gleason '86, a prominent lawyer of Boston, will deliver a lecture on "The Value of Debating in Public Life", at 8 o'clock this evening in the Assembly Room of Dane Hall. This will be the first of a series of lectures, which the Forum is arranging for its meetings during the spring. The last debate of the year to decide the championship team of the club will be held next week...
...meeting of the Executive Committee of the Forum, the upperclass debating club, the following teams, which have won all their debates during the year, were declared eligible for the final series of debates to decide the club championship: Team D--G. I. Lewis, O. K. Fraenkel, R. E. Hoguet, R. A. Kazanjieff; Team G--R. T. Mack, C. Ketchum, L. Rome, S. J. Horvitz; and Team K--P. B. Carter, H. P. Burt, W. H. King, and O. F. Shepard...
...Forum has arranged for two lectures on "The Value of Debating in Public Life" by Mr. A. A. Gleason '86 and Mr. J. J. Higgins '90, prominent lawyers in Boston. These lectures will be held in Upper Dane on April 25 and May 2, respectively, and will be open to all members of the University...
...recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the Forum, the upperclass debating club, it was decided that the present series of team debates will be the last. Since the beginning of the academic year, the club has been holding weekly debates between teams of four members. After the next two debates, each team will have debated twice. The teams which have lost no debates will then take part in the final series, to be held during the first two weeks in April, to determine the club championship. Silver cups will be presented to the members of the winning team...