To the Editors of the Crimson:

In the CRIMSON of several days ago a plan was presented suggesting the organization of class debating clubs. The advantages of such clubs would be many and great and the objections offered are trivial.

In your issue of the 30th inst. there appeared a communication opposing the scheme. The writer says: "If it can be said that they (the present clubs) do not provide for everybody, the new organizations should be made." The present clubs do not provide for everybody, for there is a certain class of men who earnestly wish to get practice in debating, but whose abilities are not sufficient to gain for them admission into the Forum or Union on account of the great competition for membership. If admission to the Union and Forum was open only to undergraduates more men would be able to make them, but in the membership of these two upper-class clubs there is a large percentage of men from the Law and Graduate Schools, men who have had training and practice in debate in other colleges as well as in Harvard. It certainly would not be wise to limit these clubs to undergraduates. Therefore some "new organizations should be made."

But it is argued that the courses in English 30 and English 6 provide for Seniors and Juniors. Allowing that Seniors and Juniors are for the most part provided for by these courses, yet we have the Sophomores unprovided for. It seems certain that a Sophomore society would be advantageous. The only question remaining now is whether the Sophomores would turn out and support such a society.

Let the president of last year's Freshman club call a meeting of all men from the class of 1900 who would actively support a class debating club. If sufficient men appear at the meeting and show enough enthusiasm in the project, then let a Sophomore club be formed, whether the other classes form similar clubs or not.

H. J. DAVENPORT 1900.