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...evening, the following officers were elected for next year: K. R. Macgowan '11, chairman; R. Douglas '12, secretary-treasurer; and R. H. Smith '10, W. C. Greene '11, and J. R. Sibley '12 as additional members of the executive committee. The following clubs are now members of the Council: Agora, Boylston Chemical Club, Committee on Legislation, University Debating Council, Democratic Club, Deutscher Verein, Divinity Club, Freshman Debating Club, Harvard Debating Club, Dramatic Club, Memorial Society, Musical Clubs, Methodist Club, Philosophical Club, Pierian Sodality, Political Club, S. P. Club, Socialist Club, Speakers' Club, W. E. Russell Club...
Addison Bennett Green, of Holyoke, who will speak second for the Yale freshmen, prepared for College at Holyoke High School and at Hotchkiss. At Hotchkiss he was a member of the Agora Society and was on the Agora debating team...
...understand rightly the conditions under which the Agora and the Forum ceased activities a few years ago, the chief reason why debating failed was that the control of the two societies was allowed to fall into the hands of a small group of men whose leadership was unpopular. If a debating club is to attract members from more than a limited section of the student body its officers should be so chosen that they will represent a number of different interests. Under a representative set of officers, and with competitions for places on the University teams and for the various...
...accordance with a resolution passed by the University Debating Council on Thursday, November 7, to the effect that upper-class debating should be left to individual enterprise, an entirely new system of debating clubs has grown up within the University. In the place of the Agora and Forum of last year, there are now five independent societies, with a total membership of about 85. Two of them still retain the names of Agora and Forum, but they have been change constitutionally in the direction of informality. Debating has now become an essentially informal affair, and three of the clubs...
...three inter club debates were won by the Agora, but the Pasteur Medal was awarded to I. Dimond '09, of the Forum, in the final debate...