Question: "Resolved, That the proposed University Club would benefit the social life of Harvard."

Best general references for both sides: Report of the "Committee of Five" on the University Club, Boston Daily Papers, Dec. 4, 1895: W. R. Thayer, Harvard Graduates' Magazine, June, 1895; Editorial, Harvard Advocate, Jan 22, 1896; Clubs and club memberships, Harvard Index, 1896.

INTRODUCTION.I. The proposed University Club is designed to furnish the facilities of a city club to a large proportion of students and help to satisfy the social instincts of the vast number of men who are of necessity excluded from the smaller clubs, and it is moreover hoped that it will strengthen college spirit.

Brief for the Affirmative.JOHN T. COOPER and ARTHUR C. TRAIN.

I. The club would succeed in the purposes for which it was organized.- (a) Similar clubs have been and are successful.- (b) It has the support of the University at large.- (1) 1000 men have signed the books.- (c) It would fill an aching void in our present college life.- (1) We painfully lack the conveniences such a club would offer.- (d) It would strengthen college spirit.- (1) It would give students the opportunity of meeting and being influenced by visiting and resident graduates.- (2) It would create and centralize college public opinion.- (3) It would give men an opportunity to meet who otherwise would not do so.- (x) Men who live at a distance from the yard could meet there.- (y) Many men who at present feel that they would be benefited by acquaintance with men of different stamp and who now have no common ground upon which to meet would find one there.- (4) It would give a centre to college life.- (x) It would supply a meeting place for graduates.- (y) It would supply a point towards which students would gravitate for information and in leisure moments for recreation.- (e) It would increase the social life of the University.- (1) It would increase the number of dining clubs.- (2) It would give the students much greater opportunity of meeting their instructors.- (3) It would give visiting graduates an opportunity to enter for the time into Harvard life.- (4) It would supply the advantages of a city club to a large number of students who desire them.- (5) It would enlarge the acquaintance of the students with each othe.- (x) It would offer a desirable meeting place for many clubs and societies.- (y) It would offer a convenient centre for amusement, refreshment and recreation.

Brief for the Negative.F. B. Fox and G. R. WILSON.

I. University Club would not increase social opportunities of men not in other clubs.- (a) It would not be a social club.- (1) Only small clubs are really social.- (x) Only in such can close friendships be formed.- (2) This club would be too large.- (b) Non-club men would not meet club men.- (1) Two sets of men have nothing in common.- (2) Nothing in new club to induce men to leave the old.- (c) Cliques would exist in the club.- (1) Cliques are indissolubly formed and fostered by preparatory schools and existing clubs.

II. University club would not restore old unity of college spirit.- (a) It would not take place of class as a unit.- (1) Members of a class were closely

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