The regular meeting of the Wendell Phillips Club occurs tomorrow evening at 7.30 in Harvard 1. The subject for debate will be "Resolved, That David B. Hill should be elected governor of New York." The speakers on the affirmative will be H. F. Knight '96 and J. W. Cooke '95. Those on the negative will be L. W. Mott '96 and W. S. Youngman '95. This meeting is open to the public and all who are interested in debating are cordially invited to be present and to speak.
To accommodate those who did not get a chance to speak at the recent competitive debate for membership, there will be another competition on November 9. This is open to all members of the University except freshmen. The subject will be "Resolved, That universal male suffrage is absurd in theory and has proved ineffectual in practice." F. C. Thwaits 2L., will speak on the affirmative and W. E. Hutton '95 on the negative. All members of the University are invited to be present and to speak.
St. Paul's Society and Y. M. C. A. Mr. Louis Byrde of Cambridge University, England, will speak before the St. Paul's Society and the Christian Association in Holden Chapel, tonight at 6.45. Mr. Byrde's address will be of great interest because of his connection with, the English Students' Volunteer Movement, an organization that is gaining much strength in this country.
All members of the University are cordially invited.
Freshman Debating Club.At the meeting of the Freshman Debating Club last night the subject for debate was "Resolved, That the late business depression was due to Democratic incompetency." The principal disputants for the affirmative were: C. E. Bown, J. M. Letterle, F. Woodbridge; for the negative, C. E. Case, F. T. Case, H. Bunting. The judges were the vice-president, B. R. Robinson and C. Grilk.
The speakers from the floor were: Affirmative, Forbes, Zigma, Bancroft and Sawyer. Negative, Dunn, Crawley, Wood, Robinson, Fowler and Barsovitch. The decision of the judges was in favor of the negative.
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