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Best general references: Municipal Affairs, Sept. 28, '97; Forum, Nov. 1892; Arena, March, 1897; Public Opinion, 20: 206; Public Opinion, 21: 862; Yale Review, May, 1897; Bryce, Am. Com., Vol. I, p. 648-9; Bryce, Am. Com., Vol. II p. 420; R. T. Ely, "Problems of Today...
...best suggestion for improvement we point to the Freshman Club and would have similar clubs established in the other classes. Our correspondent thinks on the contrary that there is no field for further development of debating activity and that the lack of success of the Union and the Forum is due to the debating courses which absorb the whole interest of upper classmen...
...then, it is asked, if there really is this demand, are not the Union and the Forum better supported? In our opinion, the explanation is, that the clubs are, and will be, unsuccessful because of faults inherent in their organization...
...therefore urge that the Union and the Forum be united as an honorary club to manage 'Varsity debating, and that the work of training be handed over to class clubs. We are convinced that a new and greater interest can be aroused in debate, and believe that the plan we suggest would in time produce that interest...
Best general references: James Bryce, American Commonwealth, I, ch. 50; A. R. Conklin, City Government in U. S., chs. 1, 2; Dillon, Municipal Corporations; C. W. Eliott, Forum, XII, 165; T. N. Hart, No. Am. Review...