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...recent newspaper reports of the debate between the Harvard Forum and the Columbia Debating Union show conclusively that the conditions under which such interclub debates are held must be changed, or that they must be given up altogether. Although the greatest care was taken when this debate was being arranged to announce both at Harvard and Columbia that it was a strictly interclub affair, most of the New York and Boston papers have, as usual, spoken of its as "between Harvard and Columbia," aad a far too general impression has thus been established that it was an intercollegiate debate...
After all, however, it would seem that the best way to secure practice in debating in addition to that gained in the weekly club debates and in the intercollegiate contests is in more frequent debates between the Forum and the Union. If one of these were held every month and decisions were given, a healthy, competitive rivalry in debating would be established between the clubs, instead of that which now exists in each trying to get ahead of the other in every possible way on questions of precedence and in securing new members...
...YORK, March 19.- Tonight in Carnegie Lyceum the Columbia Union defeated the Harvard Forum in a joint debate. The question was "Resolved, That the present method of electing U. S. Senators is preferable to election by popular vote." The Forum supported the affirmative side...
...Columbia speakers were C. F. Wheaton '97, W. B. Gunton '97 and J. M. Proskaner 1L. For the Forum, G. Gleason '97, P. G. Carleton '99 and H. G. Gray '97 spoke...
Tickets, 50 cents each, will be on sale at Thurston's, Saturday, March 20, for members of the Faculty, and members of the Harvard Union, the Forum, and the Freshman Debating Club;- Monday, March 22, for all members of the University...