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...meeting of the Debating Council yesterday the subject submitted by the French Department for the Pasteur Medal debate, "The Policy of France in Morocco," was accepted. A new regulation, that men may speak with notes in the debate, although they must not read their speeches, was adopted. The Pasteur Medal debate is open only to undergraduates...
...University Debating Council, with the concurrence of the French Department, has decided for several reasons to change the conditions of the Pasteur Medal Debate...
...Pasteur Medal is offered by the Baron de Coubertin for the double purpose of arousing interest in contemporary French politics and encouraging public speaking. Hitherto the medal has been contested for in a formal debate between two teams of three men each. The basis of formal debating is co-operation and consequently an individual prize is hardly appropriate for such a contest. Furthermore, debating has become so highly specialized that it offers little chance of success to the man who has not had considerable previous training. So the competition for the Pasteur Medal has been limited to men who were...
...more varied, and more comprehensible. The emphasis on the literary quality, the power to please and persuade an audience, should bring out that phase in which our debating is weakest. Altogether, the new arrangements are to the advantage of all parties, and it is to be expected that the Pasteur Medal will assume a position of greater importance than it has previously held...
...Louis Pasteur. Dr. H. C. Ernst...