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NEw HAVEN, CONN., APRIL 1, 1897,
THE DEBATE,
What we are pleased to believe are
good observers, have told elsewhere, at
some length, the story of Yale’s victory
at Cambridge, and the worthy contest
there on the highest plane of univer-
sity rivalry which has yet been reached
by the representatives of the old
friends and foes—Harvard ,and Yale.
There is a good deal suggested by
that meeting on the platform, thar
great and splendid audience which
crowded Sanders’ Theater to the win-
dow-sills of the upper gallery. Much of
it is told in the account which the
Weekly’s news columns contain, but one
needed to be in the audience to catch
fully the spirit and meaning of it.
Those who were there would not, we
are sure, have forbidden anything if
the way of self-congratulation on the
part of those who have, by their often
unappreciated but unvanquished ef-
forts, under conditions that, to the
eye that could not see beyond the im-
mediate present, were most discourag-
ing, hastened on the good times of the
renaissance in one of the noblest and
most essential arts in which university
men should excel, and who thus be-
came forerunners and heralds of these
better times.
Some of the best friends of debate
have wondered at times just how long!
the popular interest would be main-
tained, and whether it would fall back
again and die out soon. This result
cannot be expected now. It is not nec-
essary to speak of the conditions in
the outside world, which were so em>;
phasized in the last campaign, and
which invited the orator to the service
of his fellows and his country. Nor ig
it necessary to speak of the ‘godlike
power” itself, of which ex-Gov. Cham-
berlain wrote so eloquently in the last
issue of this paper.
It is enough to know that the inter-
est of our universities and of our stu-
dents is so keen to-day. It was some+
thing more than mere college spirit
which filled Sanders’ Theater. The
quick appreciation of every good point
the great enthusiasm with which the
best blows for one side or the other
were honored, told a natural, deep in-
terest in forensic struggle. There were
in the audience men who had no inter:
est in either Yale or Harvard and who
had never had a college training. They
were among the most interested listen-
ers.
But college debate is yet in a very
crude form, It is not to the discredit
of those who now excel in it, to say
this. With little aid or inspiration
from others they have developed their
power. How much greater will the future
be, how much keener than ever the
interest, how much more _ hopefully
shall we look to the work of university
men in and for the Commonwealth
when the high and noble art of oratory
shall be given its place in the univer-
sity training and shall be given its
power and inspiration for the students,
by the mind and spirit of some great
master. The present is only the begin-
ning of what should be and what may
be, if opportunities are taken advan-
tage of.
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THE ORANGE DINNER.
No apology is in order for taking up
a great deal of the paper this week
with ean account of the Orange Alumni
Association dinner. Those who know
the character of this Association, who
are familiar with the speakers wha
were present at the dinner, and who re-
member some of its former dinners,
need not be told that it is hard to find
better material for the paper than that
which they furnish. It seems, from the
reading, to have been a well-balanced
feast; not all fun and glorification, but
with many a suggestion for the serious
side of life, as it stands before univer-
sity men. However, there is much more
to come from reading the account than
from being talked to about it.
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Professor Phillips talked as a Yale.
representative should talk when he
said that Yale had an insatiable appe-
tite. Legacies, both great and small,
could not satisfy her. He took the
proper step, too, when he indicated
some of the delectable dishes in the
University equipment, on which her
hungry eyes were now fixed. Those
who call Yale wealthy because of the
total value of the plant and the addi-
tions in recent years, do not at all ap-
preciate what are the burdens of sucl.
development as has marked the course
of Yale in these latter days.
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Corporation Nomination.
No announcement has been made of
any particular candidacy for the va-
cancy in the Ccrporation caused by the
expiration of the term of Mr. Edward
G. Mason, 60, of Chicago. It is known,
however, that Mr. Mason will allow his
name to be presented for nomination,
As far as the wishes of the alumni
have been observed, it seems to be the
general wish that would, probably, if
necessary, be formulated into a strong
demand, that he should stand for re-
election to the post which he has filled
with so much zeal and success.
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The “ Lit.” Banquet.
The sixty-first annual banquet of the
Yale Literary Magazine was held at the
New Haven House, Monday evening,
March 29, at 8 o’clock. Covers were
laid for forty and a quartet from the
Glee Club rendered a number of se-
lections. Donald G. Mitchell, ’41, and
Professor H. A. Beers, were expected
to be present, but were prevented at
the last minute. The Faculty was rep-
resented by Professors T. R. Louns-
bury and W. L. Phelps. Harvard and
Princeton were represented by Henry
W. Miller of the Harvard Monthly,
and A. W. Leonard of the Nassau Lit.,
respectively. Frederick Tilney, ’97, and
C. P. Kitchel, °97, acted as toastmas-
ters and the following toasts were re-
svonded to:
The Retiring Board...... C. P. Kitehel-7 or
“The end crowns all.’’
—Troilus and Cressida.
The Incoming Board........ FH’, A. Lord, 98
“"Tis morning and my day has dawned.”
—Prologue to the Prisoner of Zenda.
St. BOUTIN, ee Prof. T. R. Lounsbury, 759
“Fis youth and age : * Ecvoed
All of a piece throughout, and all di-
wate it eos —Dryden.
’'The Harvard Monthly...Mr. H. W. Miller
“Oh, here’s to Johnny Harvard!”
ZUG aNaSSa fits. ek Mr. A. W. Leonard
“We'll unite to shout and sing
Long life to old Nassau.’
Chi Delta Theta..Prof. W: I. Phelps, ’87
“‘No muse hath been so bold,
Or of the latter, or the old,
Those elfish secrets to unfold.”’
The speeches were unusually inter-
esting and entertaining. The idea of
having representative guests from Har-
vard and Princeton was referred to
by several speakers as a most gratify-
ing custom, which should be repeated
in the future,
A CRITIC'S VIEW
Debate Reviewed—Individual
Work of Speakers.
The
A man who has been for many years
directly interested in college debating,
and who listened to the contest ai
Sanders’ Theater, Friday night, fur-
nishes The Weekly with the follow-
ing:
“An unusually well-balanced team,
careful and thorough preparation for
every conceivable Harvard position, a
consequent flexibility of argument, and
a team work, gave Yale the vic-
ory.
“It was clearly evident from the very
first that Harvard was not ready to
meet Yale’s objections to the definite
adoption of the single gold standard.
The Yale men took them by surprise.
Their arguments were constructed only
to meet the economic side of the ques-
tion handled by Macfarland. Yet he
quoted, with great effect, Professor
Taussig of Harvard, and they made no
effort to qualify it. Clark’s argument
they did not grapple with, and Studin-
ski’s political argument they hardly
touched.
“The work of the Yale men showed
clearly their careful preparation. They
did not leave themselves open at a sin-
gle point. Despite ingenious Harvard
attempts to decoy them, they were
not once swerved from the _ position
they had taken. While Harvard was
making a popular appeal to the sympa-
thies of the audience in favor of its
interpretation of the question, the Yale
men were one by one, piling up straight
and ingenious arguments aimed at the
judges, proving that their interpreta-
tion was the only possible one, and
then going on with the argument.
“The Yale team work was magnifi-
cent. While each man held closely to
his own specific aspect of the case, he
showed its relation to the argument as
a whole. Each man paved the way for
the other without treading on the
other’s territory. The effect was to give
a connected and cumulative argument.
The Yale presentation was direct and
progressive from the opening of Mac-
farland’s speech to the close of Stu-
dinski’s. Such team work was made
possible by the fact that the team was
a well-balanced one. This is shown by
the fact that different newspaper ac-
counts gave the first place to each
of the Yale men.
INDIVIDUALS.
“Regarding the individual men, the
Harvard Crimson says: ‘The best all-
around man for Yale was C. 8. Macfar-
land, who delivered his clear-cut argu-
ments in a careful and convincing
manner. He spoke convincingly. His
form was good, but a little too quiet.
Clark was good in argument, but was
at times almost inaudible. He made
his points well but was rather delib-
erate. The same-was true to some
extent of Studinski, whose form, how-
ever, was for the most part good. He
argued in a clear, convincing man-
ner.’
“The Yale men’s presence on theplat-
form was dignified and courteous. Not
one of them made the slightest answer
to Dobyns’ charge that: they were
“quibbling’’ and that they were “trying
to win by a trick.’ Their only an-
swers to this were their carefully pre-
pared arguments in support of their
position. They did not make a single
retort that had the slightest tinge of
discourtesy.
“In rebuttal Yale was far ahead. The
Harvard rebuttals, on the other hand,
were directed at the position they ex-
pected Yale would take, and not the
position she took.
“Frarvard had a good team; but it
was not ready to meet Yale’s line of
argument. It looked as though their
speeches and rebuttals had been pre-
pared too definitely in advance to meet
a totally different set of expected Yale
objections. They did not hold so well
together as a team.
“With regard to form, Harvard was
clearly ahead.
fulness they could give points to the
Yale men.
“A word should be added. _Yale’s
readiness was due in no small meas-
ure to what is known as the ‘Yale
spirit.2 No little credit is due to the
many men from the Union, Leonard
Bacon and Kent Clubs, who have stood
un before the Yale team presenting
possible Harvard positions. Sometimes
they knocked out Yale arguments. Per-
haps it was because they did, that Har-
vard couldn’t last Friday night. This
work of the alternates, Hume and Gar-
van, and the many others who joined
with them, should not be forgotten.”
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