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THE DEBATING OUTLOOK.
Prospects in the Sta sichaters who
are now Prominent.
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The Union’s prospects this year are
very bright. There is no doubt that
the Union will have the honest sup-
port of the whole University. With
every year the debating interest be-
comes stronger, and the men realize
more and more the honor of being on
one of the debating teams against
Harvard or Princeton. Hard work,
however, must be done this year in or-
der to capture the debating prizes.
Several strong speakers have grad-
uated, the debate with Harvard will
be at Cambridge, and not at New Ha-
ven as last year, and the Harvard de-
baters, their eyes opened by last
year’s performance, will spare no ef-
fort to win in the coming one. —
It is the intention this year of the
Union to develop strong second teams,
for on the strength of the second
team, as in football, lies the main
chance for the first team’s success.
It is also hoped that more men, out-
side of the regular debaters, will speak
from the house, thus becoming more
accustomed to speaking off-hand, and
that the Union as a whole, will devote
more time and study to each of the
regular debates.
The course of lectures is expected to
help on the cause of debating in the
University. Already two of these
have been delivered. Colonel Nicker-
son spoke on ‘“Bimetallism,’’ arguing
from the standpoint of free silver, and
Professor Schwab delivered the other
lecture on “An Examination of Bi-
metallism,’’ from the point of view of
sound money.
It will be the aim of the Lecture
Committee. to obtain other speakers,
such as these, to address the Union
on questions of public interest.
INTERCOLLEGIATE ARRANGEMENTS.
Last Spring an Intercollegiate De-
bating Conference was held on May
23, in which Princeton and Harvard,
as well as Yale, were represented.
Agreements were here drawn up to
govern a series of contests in which
each of the universities should meet
the other, and the following dates
have been arranged: Princeton vs.
Harvard at Princeton, December 18;
Harvard vs. Yale at Cambridge, March
26; Princeton vs. Yale at New Haven,
May 7.
The subject for the Harvard-Prince-
ton debate has been chosen. It is,
‘Resolved, That, assuming the adop-
tion of adequate constitutional amend-
ments, the United States should adopt
a system of responsible cabinet gov-
ernment.”
The outlook for speakers to repre-
sent Yale in her two contests this
year is very gocd as several of last
year’s debaters have returned. Two
out of three of the regular members of
each of the teams which met Harvard
and Princeton last year, and three of
the alternates are still members of the
University. The question of restrict-
ing these teams to under graduates
has been agitated but no decision has
yet been reached. If such a provision
were adopted, four of these seven
Speakers would be excluded from the
teams.
The men who are now prominent
from their ability to debate, with their
previous records in brief, are the fol-
lowing:
WALTER HAVEN CLARK, 796,
Walter Haven Clark of Hartford,
Conn., was prepared for college at
the Hartford High School. He en-
tered Yale in the class of 1896, and be-
came a member of the Freshman
Union. While he was a Sophomore,
he debated on the Yale team against
Harvard at Cambridge, in January of
1894. The next year also he debated
against Harvard. In the Spring of
1895 he became President of the Yale
Union, holding this office through two
terms. In the Spring of 1896 he again
debated against Harvard on the team
which first succeeded in defeating that
University. Mr. Clark is now in the
Yale Law School.
ROGER SHERMAN BALDWIN, 795,
Roger Sherman Baldwin of New
York City, entered Yale in the class
of 1895, and is now in the class of 1897
in the Yale Law School. During
Freshman year in the Academic De.
partment he belonged to the Fresh-
man Union, and afterwards was a
member of the Yale Union, being Vice-
President in his Junior year, and
President in his Senior year for two
terms. He was one of the speakers
for the De Forest Medal in 1895. Last
year he debated on the Yale team in
the Yale-liarvard debate.
AUSTIN RICE, ’97 T.S.
Austin Rice is from Danvers, Mass.
He is a graduate of Amherst College
of the class of °94 and is at present
in the Yale Divinity school, this being
his third year there. During his first
three years in Amherst he took up a
course in debating, under Henry A.
Frink, Professor of Rhetoric and pub-
lic speaking and in his senior year
won a place among the eight men of
the Hardy Prize debate. He was last
fall one of the regular debaters on
the Yale team which met and defeated
the Princeton debaters.
CG. S. MACFARLAND, ’97 T..S.
Charles Stedman Macfarland of Bos-
ton, Mass., is a member of the Senior
Class of the Theological School. After
graduation from the public schools of
Boston, he was in business for a time.
He spoke and debated in the public
schools, and was a member of the
Young Men’s Congress of Boston, and
speaker of the Young Men’s Congress
of Melrose for several years. When
he was twenty-one he was candidate
for the Massachusetts Legislature. He
helped organize the Leonard Debating
Club in the ‘Theological School and
this Fall was elected its President.
He was second alternate in the Yale-
Harvard debate last Spring.
CHARLES UPSON CLARK, ’97.
Charls Upson Clark, ’97, comes from
Brooklyn, N. Y., where he prepared
for college at the Polytechnic Insti-
tute. He was a member of the Fresh-
man Union, and in his Sophomore
year was elected a member of the
Executive Committee of the Yale
Union. As a Junior Mr. Clark took
part in the Yale-Princeton debate of
1895, which Yale won. He was also a
speaker at the Junior Exhibition last
Spring. He was elected President of
the Yale Union at the election of offi-
cers last year, and now holds that
office.
EDWARD HICKS HUME, ’97,
Edward Hicks Hume, ’97, comes
from Bombay, India, and having fitted
for college at the Newton, (Mass.)
High School, entered Yale in the class
of 1897. He joined the Yale Union in
his Sophomore year, and has been a
member since then. He is now chair-
man of the Lecture Committee of the
Yale Union. Last Fall he was chosen
first alternate of the Yale-Princeton
debate.
CHARLES H. STUDINSKI, ’97,
Charles Heitler Studinski is a mem-
ber of the class of ’97, and was last
week elected its class orator. He was
born in Ohio in 1876, but he now lives
in Pueblo, Colorado. He entered the
University of Colorado, interesting
himself in the debating societies,
and speaking frequently. After two
years’ study at that University, he
entered the Junior Class of Yale
in the Fall of 1895, and has_ since
then held a prominent position in the
Yale Union.
the executive committee.
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Professors Ladd and Fisher were
made honorary members of Whig Hall
at Princeton during the recent cele-
bration.
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from Nassau in the Bahamas.
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