Word: interclub
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Dates: during 1897-1897
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...final trial will be held December 16 on the question for the interclub debate: "Resolved, That United States Senators should be elected by direct vote of the people...
...competitive debate of the Harvard Union, held last night in Sever 11 to choose representatives for the interclub debate, the judges selected the following eight men whose names are given in alpbabetical order: Charles Grilk '98, J. P. Hall L. S., R. E. Olds '97, W. B. Parker '97, A. M. Sayre, Sp., J. P. Warren Gr., W. E. Weaver '98, and S. R. Wrightington '97. The men will meet this evening in 23 Stonghton to select disputants...
...second interclub debate will be held on Friday evening, April 2. The men representing the Union are W. Denman L. S. and W. H. Beal '97. The Forum's representatives are W. T. B. Williams '97 and W. J. Truesdell '97. The question will be "Resolved, That the intervention of Greece in the Cretan affair is justifiable." After the opening speeches the debate will be open to members of the clubs from the floor...
...recent newspaper reports of the debate between the Harvard Forum and the Columbia Debating Union show conclusively that the conditions under which such interclub debates are held must be changed, or that they must be given up altogether. Although the greatest care was taken when this debate was being arranged to announce both at Harvard and Columbia that it was a strictly interclub affair, most of the New York and Boston papers have, as usual, spoken of its as "between Harvard and Columbia," aad a far too general impression has thus been established that it was an intercollegiate debate...
...CRIMSON does not believe that interclub debates must necessarily be done away with altogether. They are of undoubted value in giving practice to men who have not spoken in university debates and there is all the more incentive to the speakers to do their best if it is known beforehand that a decision is to be given. Moreover, it is hard to see how they can do any harm, provided they are held in club rooms strictly between club members and without all unnecessary publicity. Otherwise, as has been said, no decisions must be made or else the debates must...