It seems to us that the point which our correspondent makes in his communication is a good one. Several times complaints have been published in our columns on the subject, but apparently our words of wisdom have fallen on barren ground. There is no reason why our debates should not attain nearly as high a standard as those of the great debating clubs at Princeton, for instance, yet there usually seems to be but little effort on the part of five-minute speakers to do more than merely exercise their voices for the benefit of nobody. We trust that the eyes of the officers of the Union may become riveted on these justifiable complaints, and may stick there until there owners arrive at some satisfactory way in which to elevate the tone of the "general debate."
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