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...Harvard Union formed in 1831 was a debating club not essentially different from the clubs which exist in practically all schools and colleges of today. The position of debating as an adjunct to the college curriculum was thus early recognized, but debating as a contest is of much more recent growth. Intercollegiate debating in America probably owes its beginning to the fact that after several years' negotiations a debating society at Yale challenged Harvard to two debates, one to be held in Cambridge and one in New Haven. The first debate was held on January 14, 1892, at Cambridge...
...doubted if the contest will attract as much attention as the recent football game at Pasadena and yet to those interested in educational matters the event cannot but be of interest. Will we see at Sanders Theatre on the twenty-first a different style of debating than that to which we are used? Probably not, because after all forensic discussion is thousands of years older than football, and the style has not varied much during the centuries. The men who meet Washington will not wear togas which they will loop up with their left hand while they use the right...
...Gallery of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings is now open again to the public, after a complete rearrangement of wall space and pictures. A recent charcoal sketch of President Lowell by John Singer Sargent is on exhibition...
...most valuable features of the library is the shelves of recent books, which, through direct purchasing in the market, are acquired and set up for use several months in advance of all other University libraries. Through a system of suggestion books, in which members write the titles of volumes they wish purchased, the books bought are always those in demand, and sure to be well used. An especially popular corner is where the latest works of poetry are kept...
...select and purchase a number of editions of modern French writers. At the present rates of exchange a very unusual opportunity is offered, and by the beginning of the academic year in the fall, it is expected that there will be available for Union members a collection of recent French publications almost unique in this country...