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...leading disputants in the Union debate this evening are: affirmative, Davis, L. S., Hobbs, L. S.; negative, Hamilton, '87, Duane...
...Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Question: Resolved, "That the advance of civilization justifies the policy which the U. S. Government has been pursuing in regard to the Chinese...
...executive committee of the Harvard Union is to be congratulated upon "the choice of subject for debate this evening. The Chinese question is a question of vital interest to every American citizen. It is one of the foremost issues of the day, and demands the earnest consideration of every student of political economy. It is a subject of discussion to-day throughout the country, and finds a place in the platform of every political party. Every student should interest himself in the debate, and make it the means of studying one of the most trying questions...
There are a great many advantages in college fraternities. They cause a feeling of good fellowship among the students, and are always a bond of union when college life is over. But as they are conducted in some colleges, they confine a man to a circle of some twenty or twenty-five men. These men he knows intimately, but the rest of the college are strangers to him. As he generally joins a society early in his freshman year - and sometimes even before he has entered, - mistakes are very numerous, and, once in, there is no withdrawal that is possible...
...action has been their own, and not prompted by mandates or regulations of the college authorities, has added to the interest, and consequently to the successes of their efforts. These efforts are seen in the establishment of debating societies; for example, here, at Harvard, in the establishment of the Union. Arguments, clear and forcible, urge that every college should have its society for discussion and debate, and that every college student should at least attend the meetings of such a society, and if possible take part in those meetings. Knowledge of parliamentary practices, power of debate and of rapid...