DEBATING

Debating at Dartmouth has been reorganized this year on a far more extensive scale than during any year in the past. Four debates have already been arranged for excepting the exact date and the precise wording of the subject. The first will be with Cornell with whom a two year agreement has been made. Early in April Amherst will be met, with the possibility of making this a three cornered affair with Colgate. The annual triangular debate between Dartmouth, Brown and Williams is listed for February, while the following month the representatives from Ripon College, who are making a tour of the East, will come to Hanover.

New rules designed to further extemporaneous speaking have been adopted for the debates with Cornell and Amherst. The two teams will prepare some general subject but will riot know the definite wording until it is announced by the judges a few minutes before the starting time.

A debating squad of about-25 men will work during the year. The men making up this squad are the members of Delta Sigma Rho and ten .men chosen at the trials.