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Ashley Day Leavitt '00 of Melrose, Mass., is twenty-two years old. He prepared at the Cambridge Latin School. He has been prominent in debating ever since he came to college and was chairman of the Junior Wigwam, president of the Yale Union and one of the framers of the present University Debating Association. He was a member of the team which defeated Princeton in the fall of 1898, and won the Thacher debating prize for the best speech at the trials for that debate. He also won the Thacher prize this year...
...Tuesday's issue we discussed the applicability of the Yale "Wigwam" debating system to the Junior and Senior classes at Harvard, and came to the conclusion that, in spite of the ground covered by courses of instruction and the University Debating Club, there was yet room for informal organizations of a character intended rather to popularize than to give training in, debate...
Last winter the CRIMSON published an article on the Yale Wigwam, a new debating society with a limited membership which was to be divided into two sections. These sections were to hold meetings of a more or less social nature by themselves and were to meet occasionally in intersection debates. The following quotations are from an article in the Yale News reviewing the work of the first season...
...past season of the wigwam has shown conclusively that debating can be made a success when linked with social intercourse and when the subjects are confined more to college topics than are those of the other debating societies...
...lateness in the formation of the wigwam this year made it impossible for the club to make the headway it desired, but next year plans have been made to start the club in running order with the first beginning of the college year...